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TIL There is a Canadian corporation that actually has its own private armed police force operating in the USA, with full authority to arrest US citizens.

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er76 TIL after an Indian king was insulted for his ethnicity by an employee while visiting a Rolls-Royce showroom in London he ordered that 6 luxury cars be bought and sent back to India to be used as garbage collectors throughout the city, damaging Rolls-Royce’s reputation and profits.
eGO5 TIL Whoopi Goldberg co-founded a company that makes medical marijuana products for women seeking relief from menstrual cramps. Goldberg says she was inspired to go into business by “a lifetime of difficult periods and the fact that cannabis was literally the only thing that gave me relief”.
loD6A TIL that because the UK Royal Navy's Astute class nuclear powered submarines can purify their own air and water and run on nuclear fuel, that the endurance is only limited to 90 days due to breakfast storage capacity for 18,000 sausages and 4200 Weetabix
davZ TIL the Polish government created a board game in 2011 to teach kids about the everyday hardships of living under communism. Its name in English is “Queue”.
wolX7 TIL the Apollo 8 Mission returned from Lunar orbit on Christmas Day and landed safely in the ocean, between Christmas Island and Hawaii, at night