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TIL In 2011, The Canadian version of the game show Cash Cab hit and killed a pedestrian in Vancouver

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D1D9j TIL the woman who married Michael Knight on the TV show Knight Rider married David Hasselhoff in real life. After they divorced, she married a man named Michael Knight.
n0lG TIL in Pakistan and India smoking scorpions to get high is a growing trend. The high lasts about 10 hours, with the first 6 being quite painful. Addicts of scorpion smoking describe it as more addictive than heroin, saying the hallucinations make “Everything appears like it is dancing.”
R5b7 TIL that The Vatican helps fund a large binocular telescope that has an instrument named L.U.C.I.F.E.R.
ne5MY TIL the Japanese stoat (Mustela erminea nippon) is a subspecies of stoat native only to Japan, and there are currently 37 recognized subspecies of stoats in the world. When members of the Mustela genus take on white winter coats, especially stoats, they are often referred to as ermines.
MY1m TIL modern Microsoft Office documents (.docx, .xlsx) are actually just ZIP files containing multiple XML files. You can change the extension of office documents to .zip and see this yourself.