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TIL: Ships Rarely Sail Outside of Designated Routes!

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mdQv TIL Bolivia employs people in zebra costumes to direct traffic. If you roll onto a crosswalk, they will dance on top of your car.
j6jGM TIL Several African countries don’t like second-hand clothes being imported to their countries because it is destroying their local textile industry.
MedyV TIL that there was a small horse called Thumbelina, who was just 43 centimeters (17 inches) tall.
LQv8V TIL that three of the four presidents on Mt. Rushmore (Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln) worked as land surveyors before starting their political careers
loONN TIL that Steve Irwin's father refused a state funeral for his son because in the words of his son, he was an "ordinary bloke".