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TIL the British government has a public list of citizens that have repeatedly sued others without cause, and are now banned from doing so.

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yQR0w TIL: To get a warm drink can cold takes20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that ice, it'd be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you put salt in that water, you'd reduce the chill time to just over 2 minutes.
GYYG5 TIL that in the Hamilton Musical, a R&B/Hip hop style Broadway musical about the forming of the USA, there is a reference/inspiration taken from Biggie Smalls "Juicy"
1OMX TIL air conditioning in the United States has a global-warming impact equivalent to every US household driving an extra 10,000 miles per year
0wWO5 TIL in 1970 Jimmy Carter allowed a convicted murderer to work at the Governors Mansion under a work release program as a maid and later as his daughters nanny. He later volunteered as her parole officer and had her continue working for his family at the White House. She was later exonerated.
Lkvm9 TIL many MLB players had fathers who played professional baseball but only one had a mother who did-Casey Cadaele