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TIL In the US you can be arrested for drunk driving even if you’re sleeping it off in the backseat of your parked car.

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Y9pP TIL Directors of the Crank movies let their Asian actors say whatever they wanted in their foreign language and was then later subtitled. Asian viewers then questioned why the dialogue being spoken by the characters didn’t match the subtitles.
b6M7j TIL of Australia's 1975 constitutional crisis, in which the Prime Minister was removed from power by the Governor-General (representing the Crown in Australia) without an election
Wkkjo TIL about "world's humblest president" José Mujica, former president of Uruguay, who drove a $1800 VW Beetle to work, donated most of his presidential salary to charities for the poor, and opted to lived on his farm instead of the presidential palace.
5p69 TIL California does not having gerrymandering problems because of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, an independent organization that determines district boundaries without favoring a particular party or group
yQrQJ TIL that leap years occur mostly every 4 years, but every 100 years we skip a leap year unless the year is divisible by 400, meaning that 2000 is a leap year while 2100 is not.