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TIL Government vehicles in Cuba are legally required to pick up any hitchhikers.

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QNW4d TIL that two US presidents had the US House of Representatives decide the election by one vote. They were Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and John Quincy Adams in 1824. In both situations, the Electoral College was deadlocked.
v1D6x TIL that there are ants called driver ants and are fucking horrifying (if any driver ants are reading please don’t hurt me)
16Av8 TIL singer Gordon Lightfoot sued the composer of Whitney Houston’s song “Greatest Love of All” for plagiarism. He dropped the suit when he felt it was having a negative affect on Houston, who was not named in the lawsuit
rEd4 TIL Americans didn’t lose their British accent, the British accent evolved; Brits used to sound more like Americans rather than vice versa.
oBW7o TIL the Soviets had their own spin on the Western genre of film called Osterns (Easterns). Instead of being set in the American frontier they were set in the Soviet union during the Russian Civil War