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TIL Spain, Belgium and France have some of the highest Organ Donation rates but not because they voluntarily choose to. It is because the gov has changed the option on the license application where you have to check Opt-out to not be considered a donor. The default setting is that you are a donor.

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QN8bd TIL: Kobe Bryant is mostly responsible for the fall of high top basketball sneakers. Raised in Italy, Kobe noticed that soccer players play in a fairly similar way to basketball player. Kobe told Nike point-blank, 'I want the lowest, lightest-weight basketball shoe ever’.
rlMw TIL Gervais aborted his series “Ricky Gervais Meets…” after being put off by the 3rd interviewee, Gary Shandling. The premise was for Gervais to do unscripted interviews with comedians who influenced him. Shandling, vocalising the fact he finds Gervais and his comedy offensive makes things awkward.
J1Qyj TIL that "semi-slugs" exist. Their shells are not completely absent but are also not large enough to provide a shelter to hide in. There are also about 1,000 known species of semi-slugs, while there are 500 known species of "normal" slugs.
EgOx0 TIL that there is a device called the Nasal Ranger that allows for the quantification of how smelly an odor is.
gMnQb TIL that a city councilman convinced a crane operator to lift a car 200 feet onto an uncompleted section of CA freeway in order to embarrass the state legislature for its budget mismanagement. It worked, they soon approved the funds and completed the interchange.