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TIL Oslo, Norway has the best subway coverage in Europe, with 80 percent of all commuting done by public transportation

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ADkMw TIL that a professor asked his students to either flip a coin 200 times and record the results or give the fake results of 200 coin tosses. The students were amazed at how the professor easily identified the real results by seeing if they had six heads or tails in a row.
XE1JP TIL in 2011 Nicolas Cage woke up in his Orange County house in the middle of the night to find a naked man, wearing Cage’s leather jacket, and eating a Fudgesicle in front of his bed. The man was arrested by police, but Cage didn’t press charges.
YJQG TIL the International criminal court, in 12 years of existence and in spending over $1 billion, has convicted only 2 people.
MeaO8 TIL after Lorena Bobbitt cut off her sleeping husband's penis, she fled the house and stole his Gameboy on the way out the door.
rRvJ4 TIL that the Greek gods considered the river Styx holy, even to them, and swore their oaths by it. Such oaths were considered so binding that even Zeus, the overlord, could not break them.