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TIL in 1999, Ben Stiller made a pilot starring Jack Black as a former astronaut. He was exposed to inappropriate levels of solar energy, giving him superintelligence. And Owen Wilson played Heat Vision, a talking motorcycle.

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5BRP TIL that in 1998 and 2001, Japan enacted a set of modifications to Japanese law called the “Happy Monday System,” which schedules as many state holidays as possible on Mondays to create three-day weekends for those that normally work a five-day work week.
lvK5 TIL Ol’ Dirty Bastard was the first person convicted under a California law making it illegal for a convicted felon to wear a bulletproof vest.
QDd6 TIL that in Mexico, Artists Can Pay Their Taxes Using Artwork that They Create.
VbaZ TIL during WWII, Dutch railroad workers went on strike to undermine the German war effort. In response the Germans blocked food supplies to the country, resulting in a famine that killed over 20,000
lXB TIL that an ancient sequoia tree that has been alive for most of humanity’s modern history was cut down in 1891 so that slabs of its trunk could be displayed in museums.