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6bZ7 TIL a Broward County, Florida man has had 16 accidents, received 25 warning slips, and served 30 days unpaid suspension since 1994 due to bad driving. He is a Mass Transit bus driver for the county and, although his disciplinary troubles began only 8 days after he was hired, he is still employed.
KNY6 TIL In Germany everyone has to pay for a TV licence by law to fund public broadcasting. They also billed Janosch Städtler repeatedly due to a registration which was filed online by a unkown hoaxer. Attempts of his family to explain that he is a dog remained unheard.
oRwx8 TIL in 2006 LEGO partnered in a cross-promotion with Duracell Batteries, in which a small Bionicle was included in a pack of AA Batteries.
1kpO TIL After cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the world’s first spacewalk, the space capsule landed so deep in the Soviet forest that the crew had to spend the night in their capsule due to the danger of bears and wolves.
1gBd TIL Teddy Roosevelt, when made Police Commissioner of New York City, inherited a vastly corrupt police force. In order to make sure officers weren’t slacking off or performing corrupt activities, he himself would walk their beats most nights and early mornings.