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TIL Uber is illegal in Finland. Cops regularly “catch” drivers, and fine them €300. Drivers routinely ask passengers to sit up front and act like they’re friends.

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7Lop TIL that Pepsi and Coca-Cola are used as Pesticide by Farmers in India as they are cheap and get the job done.
WALX TIL in 2013, a US IT worker outsourced his own job to a man in China. He paid the man 1/5 of his salary and then he sat at his desk browsing the internet. He was found out after a security audit discovered some suspicious VPN activity.
9w6ND TIL that to protect bumblebees, the California Endangered Species Act (1984) classified bumblebees as fish, on the grounds that the definition of fish included the term "invertebrate", which bumblebees also are.
GW7 TIL America’s first Muslim congressman was sworn in using Thomas Jefferson’s Koran
m1Vgy TIL The Mormon Tabernacle Choir was renamed to The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square in 2018 because the leaders of the Mormon church don’t like the name Mormon anymore.