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TIL a 54 year old New Yorker called Darius McCollum has been arrested over 30 times for illegally driving New York City public transport. He claims an overwhelming compulsion to do this due to this Asperger's. He is currently locked up with little chance of release.

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E10G0 TIL Elton John's smash hit "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" was written by his long time partner Bernie Taupin and is about Bernie's rejection of fame, high society riches and his desire to go back to a simple way of living. Taupin was raised on a farm without electricity as a child.
4XGAb TIL only 3.5% of the world population lives in a country they weren't born in.
6E9dW TIL that the Deputy Commanding General of the US Army's 82nd Airborne is a British Paratrooper
wLZM7 TIL that during World War 1, the Germans disguised one of their ships as a British ship, the RMS Carmania, and sent it out to ambush British vessels. In a hilariously bad stroke of luck, the first ship it encountered was the real RMS Carmania, which promptly sank them.
9ZrG TIL: It is illegal to boil Lobsters alive in New Zealand.