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TIL that in Switzerland if you fail your practical drivers license test 3 times you are required to consult a official psychologist to asses the reasons for your previous failures before you are allowed to retake the exam.

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QQK6 TIL a man in Alabama has spent three decades building a stone wall by hand to honor his great-great-grandmother, a Yuchi Indian woman who was forced along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma following the slaughter of her family by whites and then spent 5 years walking more than 1,000 miles back home.
xNv7 TIL in the Yellow River in China there are so many corpses to be found that it is lucrative to recover them and sell the bodies back to the families of the deceased for 500$
laXG TIL diehard Halo 2 fans refused to shut off their consoles when the Halo 2 servers where to be shut down. One play remained online for 6 weeks.
lwdG TIL: Jim Jarmusch was dismayed to discover all the money he paid for the rights to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” went to the record company, with nothing going to Hawkins himself. When the film (Stranger Than Paradise) earned a profit, he tracked down Hawkins to give him some money
VMj5D TIL that James Bond 007 Hollywood movie producer Albert R. Broccoli was implicated in the beating death of the creator of The Three Stooges, Ted Healy, in 1937