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TIL in 2010, governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote a veto letter to the California State Assembly that spelled out "Fuck you" if you read the first letter of every line.

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jNmxR TIL Australia bans nuclear power plants, but at the same time export enough uranium to produce the equivalent of 97% of its domestic electricity (which is 80% from fossil)
OaBX TIL There is a sport originating from Finland in which a man races an obstacle course while carrying his wife, and is rewarded for a win by her weight in beer.
vPyy8 TIL shamrocks in a crystal bowl has been gifted to the president of the United States every St Patrick's Day since the early 1950s.
4Ly6 TIL A South African IT company preferred to use a pigeon to transport a 4GB flash drive over 80 km (50 mi) instead of using the country’s biggest ISP’s ADSL. Including downloading, it took two hours for the data to arrive, the same amount of time it took to tranfer 4% of the data over the ADSL.
8b6a TIL After a hoarder died in his home of a heart attack in 2012, a cleaning crew found a false hollow wall with human bones inside. They were those of his wife who disappeared 27 years earlier. He had murdered her and then claimed she ran away.