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TIL It's illegal to NOT own snow tires in Québec Canada.

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0d745 TIL the fastest speed ever registered by a male while downhill skiing backwards is 82.92 mph (133.46 km/h) achieved by Anders Backe in Vikersund, Buskerud, Norway earlier this year.
699Wm TIL in 2019, adult film industry star Kimberlee Anne asked her boyfriend to point a loaded gun towards her for “sexual gratification and arousal” while they were having sex. When he held it to her chest he accidentally pulled the trigger and the gun went off. She died later in hospital.
oQB7 TIL in the mid-1800s, a snail spent nearly four years glued to a specimen card in the British Museum before scientists realized it was still alive.
mxddO TIL That April 11, 1954 is officially the most boring and uneventful day of the 20th century, according to an extensive study of over 300 million events.
jDXX TIL The singer of Peanut Butter Jelly Time passed away during an eleven-hour standoff with police even after Snoop Dogg his brother-in-law tried to convince him to surrender.