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TIL the creators of Cards Against Humanity bought an island in Maine and named it Hawaii 2

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vMvD TIL Iceland has such a small population that they have an anti-incest app so you don’t end up hooking up with a family member on a night out.
gLv9 TIL that in 2007, Costco had to recall some punching bags because they were filled with dirty underwear instead of sand.
ZpmbQ TIL the 1964 song “Beans in my ears” was banned from radio play in several cities because of a sudden spike in doctor’s reports of children putting…beans in their ears
X0jZD TIL Russian emperor Alexander I offered to mediate an ending to the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain in Saint Petersburg, but the British rejected it by never showing up.
vP7 TIL that Neil Gaiman wanted to make a movie of “Anansi Boys”, but the moviemakers wanted to change the black characters to white and remove any magic (in a story about Gods and magic), so he refused.