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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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rNOj0 TIL The feeling of falling while you're asleep happens because your muscles become very relaxed and enter into temporary paralysis. The brain misinterprets this as falling and sends signals to your muscles to jerk upright which leads you to startle awake.
ney97 TIl that in 1926 Anglo-Irish woman Violet Gibson attempted to assassinate Benito Mussolini. However, the first shot only hit his nose and the gun misfired when the attempted a second. She was released without charge, deported to the Britain and spent the rest of her life in a mental asylum.
bW74 TIL Stanley Kubrick considered both Robert De Niro and Robin Williams for the lead role of Jack Torrance in The Shining. Kubrick didn’t think De Niro would suit the part as he deemed De Niro not psychotic enough. He deemed Williams too psychotic for the role.
KYdWQ TIL researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game Pong
VM1gG TIL that the Laotian rock rat was thought to be extinct for 11 million years until it was discovered in a meat market in Laos.