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TIL that LED headlights are illegal if they're not original equipment

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Vr4G TIL There is an annual conference on boring things. In the past people have given talks on barcodes, sneezing and the sounds of vending machines.
nW1eW TIL: The executioner who hanged the Nazis at Nuremberg lied about his experience, claiming to have performed hangings in Texas and Oklahoma after both had switched to electrocution. The hangings he performed were badly botched. 4 years later, he was electrocuted changing a light bulb.
mx09Y TIL that in 1890 author Robert Louis Stevenson ('The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde') publicly denounced a well-known priest for slandering Father Damien of Molokai, who had dedicated his life to treating leprosy and died of it as a result. The priest's name was Dr. Charles Hyde.
8eyy8 TIL Mount Villingili, the highest point in the Maldives, peaks at 5.1m/16.75ft above sea-level, comfortably shorter than the pole vault world record.
neRx7 TIL that a very large telescope in Chili is officially called “the Very Large Telescope.”