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

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dD5lQ TIL the pilot episode of Star Trek Voyager was one of the most expensive television episodes ever produced, costing $23 million
dM5j TIL in the first draft of the Anchorman script, the story was about a planeload of news anchors who crash in the mountains and discover that the plane which they collided was carrying monkeys and martial arts equipment, leading to a battle between cannibalistic newsmen and star-throwing monkeys
jNQRv TIL in 1909 two Latvian anarchists stole 80 pounds worth of coins from a factory across from a police station in London, sparking a two-hour chase now known as the Tottenham Outrage. The chase involved a football charging into a marsh at one point, among other incidents.
X0g5R TIL Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ($3.1 million) in broadcast history by calling down an ace-high bluff by Wesley Fei with a pair of queens. Later in the same cash game, Fei won the 2nd largest poker pot ($2.25 million) in US broadcast history against a different player.
GAoxQ Today I learned about the 20 year old Belgian man who died from eating 5 day old spaghetti.