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TIL of David Icke, an English foorballer who upon meeting a psychic, proclaimed himself "Son of the Godhead", and began to write an extensive series of conspiracies around interdimensional energy beings, and half human reptilians of the global elite, called "Archons"

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lok5A TIL in Sierra Leone, before getting a driver's license, you have to buy a board game called "The Drivers' Way" and play it at least once. The game involves rolling stoplight-themed dice and moving models of classic cars around a board, together with answering questions about the country’s road laws
pbkA TIL Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci made an interesting observation about trees. He concluded that the total thickness of a tree’s branches is equal to the total thickness of the tree trunk. Trees across many species obey this rule. Explanations involve hydrological and structural theories.
R5xpQ TIL in the mid-1800s, a snail spent nearly four years glued to a specimen card in the British Museum before scientists realized it was still alive.
QPKM TIL William Shatner once sold his kidney stone for $25,000 and donated the money to Hurricane Katrina Victims
4ky7o TIL that a flight attendant accidentally stepped on a pilots' seat adjuster while serving them, causing the seat to throw the pilot into the yoke, which sent the plane on a brief and extreme nosedive. Passengers were thrown around and 50 were injured.