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TIL that there is a brand of background music that is played stores called Muzak

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RBk9 TIL in Finland, speeding tickes are calculated on a percentage of a person’s income. This causes some Finnish millionaires to face fines of over $100,000.
b9BDN TIL Sylvester Graham invented graham crackers as part of a radical vegetarian diet meant to curb the desire to masturbate
wLLAY TIL Steven Seagal (90s action star) was declared by a Buddhist spiritual leader to be the reincarnation of a 17th-century Buddhist master. Seagal was given the title of "tulku" which is a being who reincarnates into the world to help other beings reach enlightenment.
pY9rN TIL about H. Barry Jacobs, a Virginia business man who, in 1983, planned a business to buy and sell human organs on the open market. This led to the creation of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, which outlawed selling organs for profit in the United States.
wPP8 TIL that in 2009, Amtrak police arrested a guy for taking pictures of trains as they pulled into NYC’s Penn Station – he was trespassing and suspicious, they claimed. Why was he there? To take photos for his entry into Amtrak’s “Picture Our Train” contest.