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TIL: A man got a $190 fine for allowing his pet snake to slither freely in a South Dakota park. The animal control officer suggested that he restrain the reptile on a leash while in public.

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0a1 TIL there was a DC villain called “Snowflame” who gained super powers by doing lots of cocaine.
gMp88 TIL of a baseball player who took out his false teeth to look more intimidating during games. During one game he put them in his hip pocket, and managed to bite himself on the ass when he slid into second base
QyLE TIL the late-President of the University of California described the three purposes of a university are “To provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.”
YpggA TIL that Christopher Columbus, when he heard that one of his men had sighted land in the Americas (earning a lifetime pension for it), claimed that he had seen it the day before but simply not bothered to mention it, and was given the pension instead.
O7A4 TIL the small fish that swim next to sharks are ‘pilot fish’. They swim next to sharks to avoid being preyed on and in return sharks do not harm them as they kill their parasites - thus having a “mutualist relationship”.