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TIL the last Tsar of Bulgaria was democratically elected as the PM in 2001. He is also the last living person to have held the title Tsar

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6mv8 TIL New Zealand will deny people residency visas if they have too high of a BMI and there has been cases of people rejected because of their weight.
6Ejaw TIL Alcatraz's prison guards created the myths about man eating sharks and deadly waters of San Francisco to discourage prisoners from escaping. There is only one recorded shark fatality in San Francisco in 1959
Kj14 TIL after getting into a taxi, Prohibition agent Izzy Einstein asked the driver where he could find some alcohol, to which the driver offered him a bottle of whiskey, resulting in an arrest after 35 seconds.
P18bO TIL about Tulare Lake, once the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi, covering an area from Fresno to Bakersfield at its maximum size. It steadily shrunk from the mid 1800s onward before eventually vanishing due to water diversion for crops. It occasionally reemerges in flood years.
8eE8L TIL that as of late 2021, there are still several thousand people using AOL dial-up internet.