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TIL that Mouse Cannons were an 1862 mousetrap

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LQjQZ TIL that three Leicester City players including the son of its former manager created a scandal that involved taping an orgy in Bangkok with local prostitutes before the seasons' start. The replacement manager then went on to win the Premier League as extreme underdogs at 5000/1 odds.
P1lXg TIL: Australia is wider than the moon.
p884e TIL that the notion of fermented horse urine being a type of wine in Kazakhstan is a misconception; however, they do drink fermented horse milk (kumys).
GYBOg TIL that when cartoonist Tom Batiuk lost the ownership of his comic strip John Darling to his syndicate in 1990, he had the main character murdered with no warning. With the protagonist dead, the syndicate had the rights to an unusable property and the strip ended the next day.
5YXXn TIL in Finland, you pay speeding tickets proportional to your income meaning some people can pay over $100,000