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TIL Lesbians are four times as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to own a Subaru

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jd1j TIL Bill Gates imported a Porsche 959 supercar before it was road legal, and the $470,000 car was impounded for 13 years before the law was changed.
4XAZJ TIL of Twitch Plays Pokemon. A social experiment where internet users collaborated to beat Pokemon Red in just over 16 days. Generally regarded as a classic internet moment, the event holds the world record for "the most participants on a single-player online videogame" with 1,165,140.
OoVnX Scientists confirm Uranus smells like farts.
NZn1 TIL Australia has compulsory voting. In the 2010 Tasmanian state election, 6,000 people were fined $26 for not voting.
vgkL TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.