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TIL that in Russia, some rich people hire “ambulance taxis” to beat Moscow’s traffic jams

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oRRNr TIL Cyrillic Alphabet was firstly used by Bulgarians.
kK0m TIL That when the mummy of Ramses II was sent to France in the mid-1970s, it was actually issued a legal Egyptian passport. Ramses’ occupation? “King (deceased).”
LQk8d TIL about the HMS Victoria, a 340’ battleship that collided with another ship in 1893 and sank. But when it sank it slammed into the seafloor with so much force that 3/4 of the ship is sticking out of the seafloor at a 90 degree angle
ep6OE TIL about the Mapogo lion coalition, a gang of male lions who ruled over 170,000 acres of South Africa
yvrl TIL that Mc Donald’s sued Sarah Michelle Gellar when she was 4 years old and banned her for life. She was in a Burger King commercial and called Mickey D’s out so they sued her. It was the first time a competitor called out the competition by name in an ad.