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TIL Mice can't fart (or burp)

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VBVp TIL one Englishman took three wives (two of whom were cousins) and populated a polynesian island. Everyone living there today is descended from him.
loddK TIL there are two "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" signs; the famous one on the strip, and a smaller one on the outskirts of Vegas. There used to be three, but it was knocked over by a drunk driver.
en7g TIL Dante Alighieri author of The Divine Comedy died a few hours after writing the final lines of paradise the third section of The Divine Comedy
8xGP TIL that in sweden, your car headlights have to be on at all times when driving. Even in broad daylight
WZNN TIL: Three soviet engineers volunteered their lives at Chernobyl to release water from the broken reactor. Had they not done this, the resulting fallout would have covered most of Europe. All three men died within two weeks.