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TIL: UK Police vehicles are exempt from requiring insurance under Section 144(2)(b) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

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grWLA TIL about Barn Quilts. They are a form of Americana folk art that have multiple meanings. Some are dedicated to a specific person while others can represent an entire community.
rRvK0 TIL about Victor Vescovo, the first person to travel to the deepest points in every ocean on Earth. All of his dives used the Deep Sea Vehicle Limiting Factor, which he funded. Vescovo has also skied to both poles and climbed the highest mountains on every continent.
KY6lB TIL that when Leslie Nielsen died in 2010, ESPN ran an obituary for "Enrico Pallazzo," the opera singer that Lt. Frank Drebin (Nielsen) impersonated in the first Naked Gun! movie.
4XBJ6 TIL Will Friedle - Eric on Boy Meets World - suffers an anxiety disorder that forced him to stop acting on-screen. Despite this his career continued via voice acting (starring in Batman Beyond and Kim Possible) and in 2015 felt comfortable enough to return to live-action for Girl Meets World
JY95v TIL that there's a name dispute over whether it's appropriate to refer to Ireland and Britain as the "British Isles". Alternatives include IONA or Islands Of the North Atlantic, the Pretanic Isles after their ancient Greek name, and the St. Agnes Isles after the smallest island in the archipelago.