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TIL: That in 2017 a Canadian Man Was Fined C$149 For Loudly Singing "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"

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BrpxK TIL of the "Tree of Life" in Bahrain: an isolated 400-year-old mesquite tree in the middle of the desert sustaining itself from an unknown water source
JYpMQ TIL that scientists have developed measurement formulas so precise that the distance between the Earth and Moon can be calculated with a margin of error smaller than the distance of a red blood cell.
JYxrQ TIL that until 1956 after the end of British rule, Egypt hadn’t been both fully independent and ruled by native Egyptians for 2500 years
VBoRk TIL Soft Serve "ice cream" is not Ice Cream
9YGnr TIL the Lockheed F104 'Starfighter' jet, widely used in the 1960's earned the nickname 'The Widowmaker' in Germany as the German air force lost nearly 32% of their F104 in accidents/malfunctions with 116 Pilots dying..