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TIL that a man cycled from New Delhi to Sweden to meet his love.

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78MXZ TIL in 2007, a woman successfully appealed her case after being sentenced for breastfeeding her infant while driving on the Ohio Turnpike because her car was registered in Michigan and the judge ruled that the state law forbidding breastfeeding while driving only applied to cars registered in Ohio.
rvJ0 TIL that Jason Bateman bought the domain jasonbateman.com after learning it was a gay porn site. (45:10)
0wlGy TIL that in 1910, black sailors of the Brazilian navy mutinied and gained control of all of Brazil's large battleships. They then used the threat of bombarding Rio de Janeiro to successfully force the abolition of the slavery-like conditions they suffered under in the navy.
5YYQ TIL The Number of the Beast, commonly known to be ‘666’, may in fact be '616’ according to the oldest manuscript (about 1,700 years old) of Revelation 13 to date.
OGLy6 TIL the Indian muntjack species went through several chromosome fusions, which caused it to become the vertebrate with the smallest number of chromosomes: 6 in the females and 7 in the males.