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TIL that Australia is the only continent where venomous snakes actually outnumber the non-venomous ones

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8AZK TIL it’s illegal to run out of fuel on the autobahn due to it being viewed as an avoidable occurrence.
eXvE TIL that during her adult life, Queen Victoria was estimated to have written 2,500 words a day.
nOYo TIL that first sentences of paragraphs that are left at the bottom of a page alone called Widows, and the reverse with the last sentences/words of paragraphs at the top of pages are called Orphans.
M7AJA TIL there is a pathway in England called the Ridgeway that has been in use for 5,000 years.
jNlKE TIL that Vanilla Ice used Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure song baseline for his one-hit wonder Ice Ice Baby but didn't pay any royalties to Queen or Bowie. After facing a lawsuit, he then claimed he purchased the song Under Pressure in an interview, only to be corrected by a Queen spokesman.