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TIL The family of the Columbine shooters had to pay $2.5 million in restitution for the victims

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rNE5x TIL that the distance driven by the fastest cars at the 24 hours of Le Mans auto race is 500 miles greater than the distance from New York to Los Angeles.
jv TIL In 2004, Maryland decided to impose a monthly fee of $2.50 on people who flush their toilets
8egXL TIL all the instruments on Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You are either programmed or from a synthesizer. Carey’s co-writer on the song, Walter Afanasieff originally had a live band do the instrumental but was unsatisfied with the result and redid it by himself.
j6MdQ TIL Nose blindness (also known as “olfactory adaptation,” or “olfactory fatigue”) causes your brain to let go of certain smells, like the one of your own house! Not being able to smell your body odor or your regular perfume is also an example of olfactory adaptation or nose blindness.
LQ5Dp TIL that there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.