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TIL you can be too fat to go to jail

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xVAl0 TIL Where's Waldo, the popular book series, has a 2019 TV series shown on Universal Kids.
WkGAY TIL that some computer games used to be published in book form; the player would have to manually type in the code for the whole game that was printed in the book before they could play it
4XgN5 TIL during droughts, California prohibits companies from bottling too much water. Nestlé went around this by buying a massive water plant inside an Indian reservation (officially considered a sovereign nation) that doesn't have to comply with state water regulations.
BgvwK TIL that after medieval king of Scotland Robert the Bruce wandered away from his army he was charged at by an English knight. Instead of retreating Bruce charged and killed the Englishmen by smashing his head with an axe.
5YOPk TIL that patients who suffered from aphasia, the inability to express speech, can start to produce words by singing. This is because aphasia damages the left hemisphere of the brain, while singing uses the right hemisphere.