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TIL critics complained that Indian musician Daler Mehndi’s music was only popular because his videos featured beautiful women. Mehndi’s response was to create a video featuring only copies of himself greenscreened in, leading to the creation of the “Tunak Tunak Tun” video.

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neVjW TIL of Michel Lotito, who dissembled and consumed (among other things) 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, 7 TV’s and 1 Cessna aircraft. He was awarded a brass plaque by the Guinness Book of Records, which he also ate.
DP7j TIL the US gas guzzler tax that was designed to discourage fuel-inefficient vehicles only applies to cars, but not SUVs, trucks, and vans, since they were rarely used as passenger cars when the law was passed in 1978. The law has since not been updated to reflect modern times.
570P TIL an Austrian, claiming to be a member of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, successfully convinced his gov’t that he had to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver’s license photo because it was his “religious headgear”. The gov’t made him undergo a psychiatric evaluation first.
Z5D TIL: A police Lamborghini in Italy was equipped with a refrigerator cooler for the quick transportation of donor organs from fatal accidents.
rR7e0 TIL there is a disorder that makes the person with it unable to see anything in motion.