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TIL that Big Lots completed and sold 100 Delorean Cars from parts when Delorean went bankrupt in 1982

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yQAvJ TIL California is the first state to ban pet stores from selling pets from commercial breeders under the Pet Rescue & Adoption Act; pet stores may sell only rescue & shelter animals. Violators of the law will be fined $500 per animal. CA citizens can still buy pets directly from private breeders.
m69o TIL that lawyer for the USPS once tried to argue that the postal service did not have to pay speeding tickets because as federal service it is above state and local regulations.
R5Zo8 TIL dolphins don’t just leave their dead behind. Mothers have been seen carrying their lifeless calves for days, even as they decompose, showing a terrible sense of loss.
QJ1da TIL from 1860 to 1916, the British military required all soldiers to have a moustache because of the "authority" it imparted.
9Y1j7 TIL Of the SS Richard Montgomery, a sunken WW2 cargo ship carrying the equivalent of 1500 tons of TNT. If it explodes, it will generate a 5 meter tsunami, destroying coastal Kent.