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TIL A man in California got a personalized license plate that said “No Plate” and was rewarded with more than 2500 parking tickets

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N7NEb TIL about the Diolkos, an ancient "railway" that enabled ships to travel overland across the Isthmus of Corinth
GOlj TIL your 2016 calendar is reusable in 2044, 2072, and 2112. In 2017, you can re-use calendars from these years: 2006, 1995, 1989, 1978, 1967, 1961, 1950, 1939, 1933, and 1922.
x65Gb TIL "Chris-R" from Tommy Wiseau's The Room is an Olympic Athlete
pYWe8 TIL In 1996 a parody of the video game Myst was released. It was titled Pyst, and starred John Goodman.
EOvP TIL There is a North Korean village just across the border with South Korea nicknamed “Propaganda Village”. It is apparently uninhabited and for many years it had speakers that broadcast propaganda across the border 24/7.