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TIL that strawberry Fanta can be found in many Thai shrines as an offering to the spirits

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loJ1r TIL that England used to have a tax based on your number of windows. This mostly led to the building of homes with fewer windows (giving rise to the phrase "daylight robbery"), but conversely also led to some of the rich building homes with an intentionally large amount of windows in order to flex.
R7nNj TIL If you're coming to work consistently sleep-deprived you're basically functioning drunk.
1aXKW TIL the melody of the national anthem for the German Empire, "Heil dir im Siegerkranz," was derived from the UK national anthem "God Save the King."
gr7Py TIL that Carl Sagan has an archive in the Library of Congress, endowed by the creator of Family Guy. Seth MacFarlane put up an undisclosed sum to help the Library of Congress buy more than a thousand boxes of material kept by the late scientist and his wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan.
5V1eR TIL archaeologists working in a 2,500 y.o. Chinese cemetery unearthed charred incense burners and burnt stones that tested high for cannabinol, which is released when THC is burned. "Unlike many wild varieties, the cannabis smoked at the site [...] was pretty potent stuff."