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TIL it is not illegal to drive barefoot, and the thought that it is illegal is simply a wide-spread urban legend

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69EBl TIL That Lance Armstrong tried to destroy Greg LeMond’s legacy because LeMond accused Armstrong of using PEDs.
QJ5aM TIL Anglo-saxon king "Æthelred the Unready" is a pun. His epithet is derived from "unræd", which means "poorly-advised", while Æthelred's name means "well-advised". He was therefore "Well-advised The Poorly-advised".
oRo6o TIL in 2009 an orangutan in an Australian zoo aborted an "ingenious" escape plan. She short-circuited the electric fence around her enclosure by jamming a stick into the wires connected to it & then piled up debris to climb a wall. However she sat on the fence for 30 min before voluntarily returning
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