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TIL in 2017 the 2nd generation Vauxhall Tigra was the car most likely to fail its inspection - over 58% of them ended up failing.

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MeRnb TIL that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" is not a quote from some ancient philosopher or legal code. It is a quote from the 1982 Star Trek film The Wrath of Khan.
gMNPW TIL: 15% of men and 7% of women do not wash their hands after using a public restroom. 50% of men and 22% of women do not use soap when washing their hands in a public bathroom.
R74n7 TIL about Viola Desmond, a Nova Scotian woman who in 1946 was charged with tax evasion of one cent for refusing to leave a whites-only section of a theatre. She is featured on the new $10 Canadian bill.
wDnW TIL There´s a hugely popular reality show in China that interviews death row prisoners moments before their execution
grx8y TIL That the in the Celtic myth, "The Fosterage of the House of the Two Pails", Eithne (the Sidhe foster-daughter of the Tuatha De Danann, Aengus) converted to Christianity when meeting St. Patrick: