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TIL 18% of people in a high speed chase get away from police in Los Angelos

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rOdx TIL that, in 1990, the profits from Pizza Hut restaurants operating in Russia were paid out in bottles of Vodka(Stolichnaya). Pizza Hut would then sell the vodka in the USA. Pizza Hut still holds the exclusive rights to sell Stolichnaya in the USA.
nnYb TIL that Thankgiving and Hanukkah, which overlap this year, will not coincide again until the year 79811.
wLngP TIL in 1973 before reality TV, an anthropologist sailed across the Atlantic with 11 attractive people of different races/sex/nationalities. Known as the "sex raft" he'd purposely done this to stoke sexual relations, create tension, and purposely sought danger to see if humans would act like monkeys.
JYGMB TIL that the former president of SEGA gave the company $730M as part of his dying will, in the form of stocks and debt forgiveness, covering the loss from the the Dreamcast failure.
16gjD TIL the only 2 states that incest is legal are Rhode Island and New Jersey