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TIL Billboards are illegal in Vermont

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5aMQ TIL The top 10% of alcohol drinkers consume roughly 60% of all alcohol.
amxM TIL Walt Disney used to visit Disneyland incognito. Wearing old clothes and a straw farmer’s hat, he would sit on rides and time them to make sure operators didn’t rush Disneyland visitors.
Ooa54 TIL that the concept of a "white elephant" came from the King of Siam, where he gifted an albino elephant to people who displeased him; knowing that they couldn't get rid of it and that the upkeep cost would ruin them financially
BgMoD TIL evidence of the Roman silver operation was recorded in sediment as far away in Greenland
loG7B TIL of South Korean Pastor Chun Ki-won who orchestrated the escape of over 1,200 North Koreans. North Koreans caught in China are immediately deported back to North Korea; so Chun Ki-won smuggled them thousands of miles to Thailand where they can safely claim asylum.