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TIL Canada has a program where volunteers will give rides to intoxicated people for free

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jNEdv TIL Tetris has an official sequel. Called "Welltris", it was developed by the original creator 5 years after the creation of Tetris, retains that game's falling-block puzzle gameplay but extends the pit into three dimensions while the blocks remain two-dimensional, with the board viewed from above.
80rG TIL Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician in Israel and anti WMD activist leaked a photograph to the British press of evidence Israel had nuclear weapons. He was later tracked by Mossad, drugged, bound, thrown in a bag and renditioned to Israel for trial.
nWXXY TIL Polish Franciscan friar Maximilian Kolbe was imprisoned in Auschwitz during WWII. When 10 men were chosen for execution to deter escapes, one man lamented losing his family. Kolbe stepped in, sacrificing his life so the man could live, embodying hope amidst the Holocaust's horrors.
4X8ma TIL that on October 30, 1950, the US government bombed Puerto Rico to suppress nationalist feelings to become independent
OAnR TIL putting higher octane gasoline in your low-end car has absolutely zero benefit