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TIL there is actually a law in Arizona called the “Stupid Motorist Law”

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aw6gb TIL: That if the entire human race lived as densely as Manhattan, they would fit in the country of New Zealand...Roughly the same size as the state of Colorado.
oRk08 TIL Emperor Keikō, the 12th Emperor of Japan, was according to tradition 10 feet 2 inches (310 cm) tall, had at least 80 children from multiple wives and lived 143 years.
yVDwV TIL Henry Cavill was close to being cast as James Bond, Cedric Diggory, Edward Cullen and a 2004 version of Superman.
neRdY TIL Britain had become the biggest drug dealer ever by the turn of the 20th century; at the expense of China which had developed the biggest drug addiction problem ever. In 1906, 23.3% adult Chinese men were addicted to opium.
vPGM4 TIL The International database on longevity keeps data on deaths at age 105+, and currently contains records on 18,959 individuals from 13 participating countries. They have held supercentenarian research seminars on people living over age 110 since 2000