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TIL that Copenhagen's only ski hill, CopenHill, was built on top of one of the world's cleanest waste incineration plants

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QNx5X TIL the Titles of Nobility amendment, pending ratification since 1810, would strip US citizenship from anyone who "shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind from any . . . foreign power"
GPMJ TIL that McDonald’s faced controversy when they opened their first stores in the U.K. Applicants were asked if they wished to contribute money to an I.R.A. McDonald’s was referring to an Individual Retirement Account, but the public assumed they meant the Irish Republican Army.
jeQp TIL the word “Armageddon” comes from the Hebrew “Har Megiddo” meaning “Mount of Megiddo” and referring to the place where the Book of Revelation claims the end of the world will begin.
9kZp TIL Margaret Thatcher was one of the few Conservative MPs to support Bill to decriminalize male homosexuality in 1966.
9lKX TIL that the first gingerbread man was made for the court of Elizabeth I of England, and fashioned to look like distinguished guests.