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TIL that in Singapore, car buyers must pay for duties and bid for a Certificate of Entitlement, good for a decade. The cost of the Singaporean certificate of entitlement alone would buy a Porsche Boxster in the US

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Oovg1 TIL: Buckey O'Neill of the "Rough Riders" insisted officers shouldn't duck when shot at. To a concerned fellow soldier he blew cigarette smoke and said, "Sergeant, the Spanish bullet isn't made that will kill me." The same day, a Spanish bullet fatally struck him through the mouth and out the skull.
X01ek Today I learned that Venus and Uranus have the same surface gravity
OGnVR TIL that the Indian Army convened a press conference in 2019 to say that it had discovered footprints in the Himalayas that belonged to the YETI (Big Foot) and eventually mocked after it was found out that the DNA collected matched the local Black Bears
b9LdQ TIL Martin Pistorius, a man who woke up from a 12 year coma during which he remembered everything that happened around him.
d8Ed TIL Lego blocks have a tolerance as small as 10 micrometers, as they need to fit with every block made for the last 54 years.