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TIL of a road tunnel in Norway that has been closed - by a lorry-load of burning goat cheese. It burned for 5 days and got so got the stones cracked

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R8w7 TIL that every Apple Macintosh from 1984 to the early 90s had Steve Jobs’s and his team’s signatures engraved on the inside of the case.
NWVP TIL Chad has the world’s healthiest diet even though it is an extremely poor nation. It has access to vegetables, fruits, beans and legumes, nuts and seeds, whole grains, and fish, but almost no availability of processed meat and sugary beverages, or foods containing trans fats or sodium
Aoa4 TIL an inmate confronted Al Capone to get back when he cut in the line, Al asked him if he knows who he is and while holding scissors to Capone’s neck he replied: “Yeah, I know who you are, greaseball. And if you don’t get back to the end of that fucking line, I’m gonna know who you were.”
X4Lk TIL Civil Rights Lawyer Lynne Stewart had a 28 month jail sentence increased to 10 years for saying - “I could do that standing on my head”. She is now dying of cancer in prison.
LkJam TIL that Singapore's prime minister is the highest paid government official in the world which reflects the belief that a high salary will make him less interested in taking bribes.