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TIL To get your license in Finland, you must know how to power-slide your car!

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Lyyv TIL: Carrie Fisher made George Lucas give her a copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special. She now plays it at the end of parties when she wants everyone to leave.
VMNlk TIL in World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.
VM1AQ TIL Carl Sagan wrote a peer-reviewed paper while at Stanford with a NASA grant outlining it is probable aliens have visited the earth and feasible they have impacted our civilizations.
x0JB TIL the company behind ITT Tech was once one of the biggest conglomerates on Earth. They grossed $8 Billion in 1970, were heavily involved in the Brazilian and Chilean coupes, and were recently fined $100 Million for violations of the Arms Export Control Act.
BgJLb TIL Paektu mountain on the border of North Korea and China still holds near mystical reverence in the former communist country and is quoted as the birth place of Kim Jong Il while also being the source of 3 rivers including two that for the North Korean/Chinese border.