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TIL that getting a driver's license in Norway can cost around 30,000 NOK, or US$3,675

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4X4Ng TIL of Chess Boxing where fighters switch between boxing and playing chess. Fighters win: by knockout, by checkmate, by the judge’s decision, or if the opponent exceeds the time limit.
8eb64 TIL Sanskrit & Greek originated from the same language.
AD5J7 TIL that after the Russian submarine Kursk sank, a distraught mother of a dead sailor was drugged on camera by an agent with a syringe when she demanded answers from the Navy at a hearing.
1aQAd TIL of Carl Unthan (1848-1929), a Prussian violinist who was born without arms. At the age of 10, he taught himself to play the violin by strapping it to a stool. If he broke a string- he replaced it and tuned it using only his toes. He was also a skilled marksman, operating a rifle with his feet.
j68EQ TIL that 60s counterculture leader Abbie Hoffman's suicide note, dated 1989, read: "It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful."