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TIL A woman has failed her driving test 771 times.

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b9P0a TIL Fans of Michael Jackson's Thriller album believed that the UPC barcode on the album was Jackson's phone number. Because of this, a woman named Barbara Brown in Youngstown, Ohio, received upwards of 12 calls a day after Jackson won eight Grammy awards. Many believe the rumor was spread by MTV.
5VDb8 TIL there is a chess opening called "The Toilet Variation".
rR7nx TIL Charles Waterton was a naturalist who preceded Darwin. He taught a Guyanese slave to practice taxidermy, who taught Charles Darwin. He is credited as the first man to bring the poison curare to Europe to be used as a veterinary anesthetic, and he liked to dress as a scarecrow and sit in trees.
e0G6k TIL nearly a quarter of your bones are in your feet.
DQM4g TIL that prolonged exposure to bird droppings or feathers can cause Bird Fancier’s Lung, an inflammatory condition marked by shortness of breath, fever, dry cough, chest pain, anorexia and weight loss, fatigue, and progressive pulmonary fibrosis.