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TIL in the UK it's illegal to be DRUNK in a pub / bar

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xVd87 TIL: Brightline, the Florida based rail service that currently operates between Miami and West Palm Beach, is the nation's deadliest railroad with more than 40 people killed at rail crossings in the first two years of operation.
8a4Wa TIL about the Yellow Fleet, cargo ships which were stuck in the Great Bitter Lake for 8 years.
rRBDw TIL: A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître was the first to suggest the big bang theory as the origin of creation in the 1920s, when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom.
lAbB TIL that the first African American actor to have a reoccurring role on a kids’ TV show was Francois Clemmons, who played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He initially did not want to play the role because he had a negative view of police officers.
OGYdg TIL the first Vampire / Dracula movie is 100 years old, released in 1922. It was an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.