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TIL that in Japan you can be arrested for borrowing someone’s bike

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Maoa TIL that the actor who played the gungan chief, Boss Nass, in Star Wars Ep I (Brian Blessed) survived a plane crash in the rainforest of Venezuela, boxed w/ the Dalai Lama, climbed Everest 3 times, and is a 3rd degree black belt
Y7jZ TIL that former journalist Solomon Shereshevsky appeared to have no limits on his ability to memorize, memorizing poems in foreign languages (which he could not understand) within minutes and recalling them verbatim years later; however he could not recognize faces because they were so “changeable.”
O1J4 TIL that only 1% of a mature tree is actually living.The other 99% is dead matter.
XEwYQ TIL there is no official difference between a hill and a mountain
7KoZ TIL that Paul Revere actually shouted “The Regulars are coming out”, not “The British are coming”, since Massachusetts colonists still considered themselves British citizens at the time.