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TIL People who drive Hummers get 5 times more tickets than a regular driver

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Z8vpp TIL Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe owned roughly one percent of all the money in Denmark, wore a nose made of gold after losing his own in a duel and had a pet moose that he sent out to attend parties in his place until it one night got so drunk that it fell down a flight of stairs and broke its neck
oB88Y TIL James Taylor’s father served as the medical officer for Deep Freeze, an expedition to Antarctica.
rR6le TIL that a Belarusian television company associated with the government of Belarus, created a show featuring four nerdy scientists living next to an attractive waitress named The Theorists. When the actors found out their show was an unlicensed rip of The Big Bang Theory, they quit.
g97 TIL that lactose intolerance is “normal,” and most mammal species develop a natural lactose intolerance after weaning.
LkaM9 Today I learned that guests at a wedding in Serbia accidentally shot down a small plane with celebratory gunfire.