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TIL that Roald Dahl, author of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, and Matilda, was also a renowned Adult Fiction author who wrote for Playboy.

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X06g6 TIL of the origin of the phrase "drunker than Cooter Brown." Legend says that Cooter lived on the dividing line between north and south in the American Civil War. He didn't want to fight, so he stayed drunk all the time to make himself ineligible for military service.
b60RQ TIL the Czech Republic remains the leader in per capita beer drinking for the 29th year. In 2021, the average Czech drank more than 184 liters of beer. In fact, nine of the top 10 consumers of beer per capita are European nations.
7dZL TIL Henry “Box” Brown successfully escaped slavery in 1849 by mailing himself in a wood crate from Virginia to the free state of Pennsylvania.
N7kQ6 TIL that EU citizens living in another EU member state have voting rights in local and EU elections in their country of residence, even if they're not citizens of that country.
V8oZ TIL in 1982 a Los Angeles man named Larry Walters used a lawn chair and weather balloons to ascend to 15,000ft above ground. On the way up, he lost both his glasses and his bb gun, which he planned to use to shoot balloons to descend. He caused a 20min power outage, and was fined $1500.