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TIL: It is legal in South-Africa to equip your car with flame-throwers to prevent carjacking.

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vP8RR TIL: That the final of the 100m at the 1924 Paris Olympics took place at 7pm on the 7th July 1924. Every year thereafter, at 7pm on the 7th July, winner Harold Abrahams and bronze medalist Arthur Porritt would dine together, until Abrahams's death in 1978.
0w9J5 TIL that Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon, loved insect collecting as a child. As more and more land was paved over to make room for Japan's cities, Tajiri became inspired to create the Pokémon video games so that other children could experience the joy of catching bugs just as he had.
eW7E TIL that 16-20% of google searches each day have never been searched before
Dopv TIL a New York photographer went unnoticed before her suicide at age 22. Today Francesca Woodman is famous for the over 800 hauntingly beautiful and surreal photographs she left behind.
OlV6 TIL that the lease of the Guinness brewery lasts until the year 10759