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TIL of Szechuan Buttons… an edible plant that causes a sensation “a little north of Pop Rocks, and south of putting a 9-volt battery in your mouth.”

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OG9J1 TIL It's illegal to engage in metal detecting in Ireland
RNl9 TIL The US government backed out of the film “independence day” because producers refused to remove references to the secret Area 51 site.
wMo1 TIL that in 1989, the US military blared AC/DC music at General Manuel Noriega’s compound in Panama for two continuous days. The dictator surrendered.
wL1D7 TIL that a the Netherlands supposedly declared war on the Isles of Scilly (off the southwestern coast of Cornwall, England) in 1651, and essentially forgot about it until a treaty was signed 335 years later, in 1986. Not a single shot was ever fired.
yr1v TIL in 2009 a Russian woman was prosecuted for raping ten men, out of which nine men pressed charges, while one man said he loved it.