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TIL A puppet who performed at Europe’s largest song contest received several thousand votes in the Irish Presidential election of 1997 and still receives a few hundred votes each election as a protest vote

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D11BP TIL that the charges you are billed for medical procedures have almost no relationship with the negotiated cost that each Insurance company pays.
vP1n8 TIL that CNN has prepared a sign-off tape to be played at the "end of the world"
rN5mw TIL Prior to human settlement New Zealand had no land-based mammals apart from three bat species
yQe1w TIL Canada's CBC studied purity of bottled water to find microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
e044g TIL that police in Georgia, "drug recognition experts," can arrest someone for driving under the influence of marijuana just by claiming the driver seemed to be impaired — even when tests show otherwise