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TIL Steve Jobs found a loophole in California law which allows cars less than six months old to be driven without license plates. He made an arrangement to lease an identical new Mercedes every six months so he would never have to put license plates on it.

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Y7yJG TIL the Ancient Egyptian Religion outlived the (Western) Roman Empire. Worship continued at the Philae Temple Complex until AD 537, more than sixty years after the Fall of Rome.
N7Xb1 Eighty-five years so far. The pitch-drop experiment—really more of a demonstration—began in 1927 when Thomas Parnell, a physics professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, set out to show his students that tar pitch, a derivative of coal so brittle that it can be smashed to pieces with a hammer, is in fact a highly viscous fluid. It flows at room temperature, albeit extremely slowly.
DB8v TIL in Iceland they have an app to detect whether or not your date is a relative, due to having a small population.
1a5wO TIL that if two identical metals touch in space, they instantly bond together and are permanently stuck. This phenomenon is called "cold welding."
emXD TIL 3,200 years old tree is so massive its never been captured in a single image until now!