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TIL Norway bases drunk driving fines on income.

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bdQ TIL Nirvana disliked the original video for Smells Like Teen Spirit so much, Kurt flew to L.A. and reedited it to the version we know today. Here’s the original version.
pyQ8 TIL that only one Soviet male was awarded the “Mother Heroine Medal” (reserved for women who bore at least 10 children), because he adopted 12 children.
rZwy TIL dogs can smell their owners from 11 miles away
nd8b TIL there are 12,000 properties designated “severe repetitive loss” properties for which “the flood insurance program has paid the owners for four significant flood claims, two within one decade”, helping to contribute to “about $24 billion in debt and taxpayers are left to pay the claims”
pYxXQ TIL about Philippine Airlines Flight 812. A passenger hijacked the plane and robbed the other passengers. He tried escaping using a homemade parachute, but he couldn't jump and needed a flight attendant to give him a push. He was killed after his parachute failed to open. Everyone else was unharmed.