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TIL that skateboarding was banned in Norway from 1977 to 1989

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BVpK TIL that while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleges confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleges believed a spy had infiltrated the project.
loKxA TIL firefighters responding to the Chernobyl nuclear accident described their experiences of the radiation as "tasting like metal", and feeling a sensation similar to that of pins and needles all over their faces.
VZKD TIL In 1974, Stephen King checked in as the only guest in the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO before it shut down for the winter. He dreamed that night of his three-year old son being chased through the long, empty corridors. He woke up and had the inspiration for The Shining.
Y7jod TIL- the Papillon dog, one of the oldest toy spaniels, it derives its name from the French word Papillon (butterfly), because its ears look like butterfly wings.
6El5w TIL Mary Kay Letourneau's father John G. Schmitz once ran for President of the United States, and was such an extreme right-winger, the ultra-conservative John Birch Society expelled him