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TIL Norway has a special licence plate just for rally cars.

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7r16M TIL that the Australian island state of Tasmania has an 85-metre land border with Victoria due to a surveying error
QXLe TIL: Russia still owns a piece of Europe totally separate and isolated from the rest of Russia.
OoWB6 TIL that Denmark was the first nation to pay worker compensation to women, nurses and air hostesses, who had developed breast cancer after years of night-shift work in government sponsored jobs.
LyLr TIL all copies of the film “Nosferatu” were ordered burned by a court due to a lawsuit from the heirs of Bram Stoker, who said the film was an unauthorized adaption of “Dracula” (it was). However, one copy survived the purge, and the film is recognized today as a masterpiece of horror in film.
MjKV TIL a man bought 365 Starbucks Cards and registered each one for a different birthday, so he got a free birthday drink every day of the year