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TIL in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, public transportation is free for its residents.

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mPRx TIL André the Giant was so large by the age of 12 that he could not fit on the school bus, and so was driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
a8BVb TIL: Pythagoras hated beans and forbid his followers to even touch them, Da Vinci and Norbert Weiner were vegetarian, Charles Darwin ate the exotic animals he studied such as tortoises and armadillos, and Aristophanes attributed Athens' intellect to a low calorie diet.
eGO5 TIL Whoopi Goldberg co-founded a company that makes medical marijuana products for women seeking relief from menstrual cramps. Goldberg says she was inspired to go into business by “a lifetime of difficult periods and the fact that cannabis was literally the only thing that gave me relief”.
N7bdJ TIL Blowing out birthday candles increases bacteria on cake by 1,400%
1aJ94 TIL that in British Columbia, it is against provincial regulations to make servers provide their own float, pay for "dine-and-dash" bills, or cover breakages and cash shortages.