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TIL Happy hour is illegal in Ireland

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E1gjx TIL that Oslo city council decided to forbid cars from entering the city by 2019
nWag9 TIL that actress Bette Davis became the first female lifeguard for Ogunquit Beach, Maine in 1926.
YpVmW TIL ancient Egyptian priests used to pluck every single hair from their body to sanctify themselves. ouch
B6Nr TIL that in 2002, the candidates for the election of Warsaw’s mayor were each given the same save of SimCity 3000. The map resembled Warsaw, had 32.7k citizens, and they got 60k simoleons. The competition was won by Lech Kaczynski who won the elections afterwards. He soon became President of Poland.
KYOd6 TIL if all the trenches built along the western front in WW1 were laid end-to-end they would total over 25,000 miles long; enough to encircle the earth at the equator (24,901 miles)