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TIL There's a School in Washington State in which their school bus has to cut through Canada twice a day every day to take kids to and from school

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6ROl TIL: 37 states in the US don’t require sex education to be medically accurate. Some states will let you teach the Stork before teaching about condoms.
rRgOo TIL in exchange for appearing in a mobile phone ad, legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer requested the novelty number 0176 / 666666. He was then flooded with erroneous phone sex calls by confused callers, since "six" and "sex" are pronounced almost the same in German.
J1Njk TIL John Jameson, the creator of Jameson Irish Whiskey, was the great grandfather of Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio.
ADrgx TIL Croatian defender Josip Šimunić received three yellow cards in the match against Australia during the 2006 World Cup.Referee Graham Poll later revealed that upon booking Šimunić for the second time, he had erroneously recorded him as "Australia #3", due to Šimunić's Australian accent.
enJ6 TIL: The land with private homes the Supreme Court allowed a city council to “condemn” and sell to a private developer is now an empty lot because the developer couldn’t raise the money to develop the land.