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TIL Travis Kalanick, the CEO and co-founder of Uber, has the 2nd highest Wii Tennis ranking in the world

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EJyP TIL scientists once recruited theater students to stumble drunkenly into 153 Norwegian bars and ask for another drink. They found that bartenders were much more likely to over-serve drunk women than men.
lWxA TIL When a coal mine catches fire, it burns for decades or even centuries. There are thousands of these fires across the world at any given moment.
WZpN TIL: Nikola Tesla was offered the task of completely redesigning the Edison Company’s direct current generators for fifty thousand dollars. After months of work, when Tesla asked for payment Edison refused and said “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor”
Jo1l TIL In the 2013 American Cheese Competition, only one cheese was entered in the Dry Jack category, it came in THIRD! The judges chose to not award first or second.
oLg7 TIL a man in Charlotte, North Carolina spent $1,200 to convert his diesel car to run on vegetable oil. He was fined $1,000 by the state for not paying gasoline taxes, and told he would need to post a $2,500 bond before using the oil