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TIL that Michelle Stephenson was supposed to be Smart Spice of the Spice Girls, only to be replaced in the end by Baby Spice

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d6ed TIL studies have shown that dry counties have higher drunk driving fatalities than wet counties. Researchers believe that dry county residents will go to neighboring wet counties, get intoxicated, then have to drive back further while drunk.
OomO6 TIL it’s a myth that humans swallow an average of 8 spiders per year while they’re asleep. It was a made up by a columnist named Lisa Holst who wanted to show how quickly misinformation can spread.
jNekE TIL that 6-10 billion light years away, there is a void in space 1 billion light years wide. It is completely empty of both normal matter and dark matter. It emits no detectable radiation or light of any kind.
JYV7k TIL the movie Die Hard was based on a book "Nothing Lasts Forever" where the main character is depicted as a disturbed hero from his Second World War fighter pilot days, and it is hinted that if he never got involved, fewer people might have been killed. At the end, he likely dies from his wounds.
XExj8 TIL that an acre was originally a rectangle made up of furlongs, which were the distance a pair of oxen could plow before resting