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TIL Floridian fathers had to be reminded not to assault their child via a billboard because it was becoming a problem.

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7rQkZ TIL the Australian government held a national competition to name their new currency in 1963. Some of the proposed names were austral, oz, boomer, roo, emu, kanga, koala, digger, dinkum, kwid, and ming, before the parliament settled on dollar.
OlPR TIL that if you travel at 99% the speed of light away from the sun, the light from the sun would still pass by you at the speed of light relative to you.
ADE0o TIL that the 4.6 billion streams of "Despacito" used as much electricity as the combined annual electricity consumption of Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic.
DGND TIL a mason in 1700’s Jerusalem left his wooden ladder behind after doing some work on a church and now it can’t be moved without the agreement and permission of six different Christian leaders.
VMolm TIL stock scammer Jordan Belfort originally wanted to be a dentist, but backed out when his college dean told him on the first day that "The golden age of dentistry is over. If you’re here simply because you’re looking to make a lot of money, you’re in the wrong place."