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TIL the first time a person was charged with drunk driving using an EV was on 10 September 1897

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DQPwP TIL that there is a history of soap being made from human corpses
ZpaLR TIL about “minced oaths” — a type of euphemism based on a profanity or blasphemy that has been altered to remove the objectionable characteristics of the original expression
KYQM9 TIL that Grizzly bears in Yellowstone help manufacturers to test if their products are really bear-resistant. If a bear were able to get in a container within that 60 minutes, then the manufacturer would have to go back to the drawing board.
VMVMp TIL there is a Russian version of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia called "В Москве всегда солнечно" - "It's Always Sunny in Moscow". The gang runs a bar named Philadelphia.
0d1JM TIL in 1831 four countries claimed a new island in the Mediterranean that disappeared again only six months later