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TIL that Bike Helmet Law was defeated in Denmark partly because “the overwhelming evidence is that enforced helmet laws lead to very much less cycling, particularly for utility journeys and amongst young people.”

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0dM0p TIL Jerry Lee Lewis released his album "Last Man Standing" in 2006 because Lewis was the last survivor from the generation of 1950s Sun Studios recording artists such as Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley. Lewis lived until 2022
4O8b TIL that Iceland gets 100% of its energy from renewable sources.
D1wQr TIL that though the phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" is the most well-known quote from Star Trek, it does not appear in any movie or tv episode.
M5Dm TIL Spielberg suggested Ron Howard (the director of Apollo 13) to use KC-135 - an airplane that could create 23 seconds of weightlessness for filming certain scenes. Those scenes were filmed in bursts of 25 seconds after flying 612 parabolas, adding up to a total of 3hrs 54mins of weightlessness.
jN64E TIL that there was an "ugly law" that deemed it illegal for persons who were "unsightly" or "unseemly" to appear in public.