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TIL Sour Patch Kids are called Very Bad Kids in France and were originally called Mars Men.

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B8Vx TIL George Orwell’s 1984 which condemns totalitarianism in a police state, is readily available in China, having been translated 13 times from 1985 to 2012
n0br TIL that Poe Dameron was supposed to die in The Force Awakens and therefore Oscar Isaac wasn’t sure, if he should accept the role. When Isaac finally wrote Abrams: “Okay. I’ll do it!”, he replied: “Never mind. I’ve figured it out. You’re in the whole movie now.”
ANg4l TIL that in Singapore, one would require a permit to own a car known as the Certificate of Entitlement (COE), often costing as much as the vehicle itself, if not more. Introduced in 1990, its implementation is largely due to regulate the growth of cars in the country.
Brgry TIL of Hyperloop, a new type of transportation using electric propulsion through a low-pressure tube to move people and freight up to 670 mph or 1080 kph.
KJY9 TIL that German journalists have a word, “widow shaking” for the practice of aggressively getting sob story material from relatives of disaster or crime victims.