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TIL A survey of 500 drivers found that 44 percent couldn't get a passing score on a written driving test. However, there's no limit to the number of times you can take a driving test

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nRao TIL that in 1982 an animated Gilligan’s Island sequel was made, where the castaways built a spaceship to get home, but due to Gilligan they ended up crash-landing on an alien planet.
dDaeK TIL that the Pythagorean theorem must have been known before Pythagoras, because it is used in a proof on a Babylonian clay tablet dated about 12 centuries before the birth of Pythagoras.