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TIL Chicago illegally shortened their yellow lights by .1 second, which increased their ticket revenue $8 million over 6 months

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N76o6 TIL a dog named Sundance (Sunny) was trained to go get a grocery list from his neighbor who is self-quarantining due to medical conditions that put her at high-risk such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and then he brings the groceries over to her front door every night.
0dmPN TIL Giovanni Villani's chronicle documenting the history of Italy from ancient times until his contemporary 14th century ominously ends mid sentence as the author was describing the effects of the black death. The author himself also died of the plague
8aOEG TIL, if you were able to travel from the Earth to a distance of 8.3 BILLION Light Years, you would cross the Cosmic Point of No Return, where you would NEVER be able to make it back to Earth, even if you somehow traveled the speed of light.
aOOL TIL there is a mountain in Australia named Mt. Disappointment, named as the explorers found the view from it sub par and wanted to reflect that.
epyd6 TIL about the Olympus Scandal centering around Japanese camera maker Olympus hiding massive investment losses totaling $1.7 billion through an elaborate accounting fraud that lasted for at least 13 years before being exposed in 2011