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TIL driving certain vehicles on certain days in the Phillipines is banned. Depending on the number the licence plate ends with, determines which day that car is not allowed to be on public roads

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jxPQ TIL Steve from “Blues Clues” released an indie rock album produced by Dave Fridmann of Mercury Rev and featuring Steve Drozd of The Flaming Lips.
9BKQ TIL Tami Erin, the actress who played Pippi Longstocking in 1988, sold a sex tape after her ex-boyfriend threatened to profit from it.
YpDmB TIL that the man who ordered the grounding of all aircraft in the U.S. on 9/11 was on his first day on the job.
1aZE8 TIL that in an attempt to enforce Prohibition, the Prohibition Bureau began adding poison to industrial alcohol to prevent its consumption, killing between 10,000 and 50,000 people. This was supported by people like Wayne Wheeler, who argued that the victims had committed suicide by breaking the law
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