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TIL Cops arrested a 99-year-old woman so she could cross it off her bucket list

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BrWWk TIL electric cars have been around since the 1800s and used to be common in the US and Europe, with (for example) a 1901 Baker Electric being capable of going over 200 miles on one charge.
W7kw8 TIL Jerry Springer was born in a London subway station, which was being used as a bomb shelter in WWII
JY6b8 TIL that ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ refers not to depth, but distance travelled whilst submerged
MLLW TIL that hard partying may just be “masked depression,” a clinical condition in which all the “fun” is just a way to conceal overall unhappiness and lowered self-esteem.
PvME TIL that Disney originally wanted ABBA to do the soundtrack for ‘The Lion King’. When ABBA said they weren’t available, they asked Elton John.