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TIL in 2011, Florida changed its yellow light intervals to below federal recommendations in a deliberate attempt to increase red light tickets.

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nwVb TIL During a nuclear scare in 1960, the President of France secretly went to the President of the United States and told him “I do not know what Khrushchev is going to do, nor what is going to happen, but whatever he does…. I want you to know that I am with you to the end.”
XOER TIL that, in 1943, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a series of private letters about losing his command and various military blunders, and general good health. Later, he founded scientology and claimed heroics and injuries in the war.
4kKva TIL Adding Sugar to a Car’s Gas Tank is a Myth and does nothing
mx76o TIL Bobby Fischer is believed to have played online chess in the year 2000, well after his last known game in 1982
QJ1Dd TIL James Derham was a black man who worked as an assistant under several doctors who owned him in the 1700s. He learned about medicine from them which lead him to open his own practice after he was freed. He was the first African-American to practice medicine in the U.S.