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

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Bry TIL that the United Arab Emirates donated a laptop to every high school student in Joplin, Missouri, after the city had been devastated by a tornado.
yVoKp TIL there's a species of fish (the Devils Hole pupfish) whose entire native range is a portion of a single underground pool in Death Valley.
69o6Y TIL Van Gogh gave his severed ear not to his favorite prostitute, as legend goes, but to an 18 year old maid at the brothel he frequented. Her name was Gabrielle Berlatier. Too young to work as a prostitute, she took a cleaning job to pay medical debt from receiving the newly invented rabies shot.
W7QPA TIL that in 1958 Howard Ulrich and his son sailed over a 1,720-foot wave caused by the largest tsunami ever recorded
wKOo TIL - Native Americans regarded homosexuals with high respect