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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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9wZ1M TIL a 172 year old specimen at the Mütter Museum helped researchers fight a modern cholera epidemic
9wJV6 TIL The native population of the entire continent of Europe is shrinking with no country having a fertility rate at replacement level (2.1 children per woman). France has the highest at 1.79 but all the other most populous Euro countries have rates of between 1.15 and 1.6.
vAl8 TIL of USAF Captain Craig Button. In 1997 he broke formation and flew his jet for almost 800 miles before crashing into a mountain. The bombs on his jet were not recovered at the crash site and no one knows what happened to the bombs or the reason for his actions.
NXdkb TIL Caesar Salad originated in the 1920s from Tijuana, Mexico!
NXBKM TIL, Daryl Hall met John Oates when they both took cover in an elevator from a gang shootout at a Philadelphia music hall