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TIL The US Highway Patrol generates over $6,000,000,000 of revenue per year from only speeding tickets

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XEJAE TIL that scientific studies show that 1,500 animal species are known to practice natural same-sex coupling - from insects, to fish, birds and mammals.
bKY0 TIL of Lyndall Scott Russell, a military wife who invested $315 in 15 shares of an insurance company in 1950. The insurance company became Safeco, and after 9 stock splits and dividends reinvested, her $315 investment turned into over 33k shares making her a multimillionaire.
b9vg9 TIL That when Christopher Reeve (the man who played Superman) was about to receive the surgery to reattach his skull to his spine after falling off a horse, Robin Williams cheered him up by dressing as his character from Nine Months and proclaiming that Reeve will be getting a rectal exam.
0Gaj TIL in Vatican City, drug possession and dealing is not illegal
goWb TIL on August 6th, 1970, over 300 hippies invaded Disneyland and assumed control over Tom Sawyer Island