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TIL about the “Cheeseburger Law.” A bill that blocks lawsuits by people because they ate too much and got fat.

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LQvGZ TIL Asia and Australia are separated by a deep-water channel located in Indonesia called Wallace Line that kept the flora and fauna of Sahul Shelf (East Indonesia/Australia) separated from those of Sunda Shelf (West Indonesia/Asia)
pxQb TIL Chinese government takes its officials and members of their families on prison tours on a regular basis to give officials an introduction to what awaits them if they should engage in corruption. The tours include meet-and-greets with former government officials who were caught for corruption.
EJd0 TIL an old lady who bumped into Stephen King in the supermarket told him she didn’t like his writing and she preferred uplifting movies like Shawshank Redemption. When King told her he wrote that too, she replied ‘No, you didn’t.’, causing King to momentarily doubt that he was indeed the author.
Me9OK TIL of Eugene Bullard. America’s First Black fighter pilot who without the wager of a $2,000 bet would have never flown at all. Remarkably, he fought for the French, was a boxer, stevedore, jazz drummer, club manager and finally an elevator operator in NYC.
RNNl TIL that in the entirety of his 567 competitive games spanning a professional career of 16 years, English footballing legend Gary Lineker never once received a yellow card for foul play.