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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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Jo7m TIL The world’s largest concentration of nukes is housed 20 miles NW of Seattle, and it’s defended by trained dolphins.
eyGJ TIL that when Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet during its 1910 approach, there was public fear that a gas discovered in the tail, cyanogen, would destroy all life on the planet, leading to people buying gas masks and “Anti-Comet Pills.”
9wM1G TIL the lawyers of Rosa Parks sued Outkast in 1999.
160oP TIL that Los Angeles has oil rigs concealed in fake buildings all over the city including one that's meant to resemble a synagogue and even has a small island chain built off it's coast for the sole purpose of drilling oil. They are the only decorated oil islands in the United States.
a6wb TIL that Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” has spent more than 800 weeks in the Billboard 200 since its release.