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TIL Goofy actually is a dog, not a cow

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AD0nB TIL in 1998 Alice Walton (Sam Walton’s daughter) could have paid a $650 fine, instead she fought it and got convicted of DWI. After being released she went to the hospital for a blood test to prove she wasn’t drunk and tested at a .16.
GAlM4 TIL about the Wire of Dead, an electric fence along the whole border of Belgium and The Netherlands erected during WWI by the Germans to prevent anyone escaping to Neutral The Netherlands.
rN0nx TIL that despite being mentally unfit to rule, Afonso VI became King of Portugal in 1656. He married Maria of Savoy but was unable to consummate during their 2 year marriage. Maria got an annulment, married his younger brother Pedro, sent Alfonso into exile on an island and they claimed the thrown.
W7ZwN TIL Winston Churchill left behind a debt of Rs. 13/- at the Bangalore Club, India which was written off by the committee on 01.06.1899 as an ‘irrecoverable sum’.
QNP7a TIL The Vredefort crater in South Africa was created 2 billion years ago by an asteroid or comet striking Earth. The crater, which has since been eroded away, was around 180–300 km (100–200 miles) across when it was formed.