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TIL if you fail your driving test in Switzerland more than 3 times you must take a psychological exam before being allowed to retake it.

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ADoa TIL the unnamed hunter who kills Bambi’s mother was named the 20th greatest movie villain by the American Film Institute.
woYmY TIL Radio AAHS was a successful ‘90s children radio network robbed by Disney. During a brief partnership in ‘96, Disney stole AAHS’ trade secrets and program model to create Radio Disney. In a later lawsuit, a jury found Disney guilty and ordered them to pay $20 million in damages.
QNavp TIL that 2.5% of people are affected by prosopagnosia, or face-blindness. Symptoms include an inability to recognize people you know, and finding a vague familiarity in strangers who bear some resemblance to loved ones. Causes range from genetic to acquired, which sometimes spontaneously resolves.
yVJBw TIL Paul Dirac was the youngest-ever theoretician to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at thirty. Dirac published an equation in 1928 that physicists all over the world regarded as wondrous as it described behavior of electrons while accounting for spin
x6X1B TIL that Louis XVI wasn’t executed days after the Bastille storming but four years after.