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Today I learned that you can’t buy Smarties(the chocolate ones)in the US.

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Z89GB TIL that while the guillotine was being prototyped, King Louis XVI "recommended that an oblique blade be used instead of a crescent blade, lest the blade not fit all necks". His own was "offered up discreetly as an example". He was later beheaded in 1793 during the French Revolution.
BrYpx TIL about the deforestation and "wood mafia" of Romania. Every year, 38 million cubic meters of wood is destroyed, of which half of the harvest is illegal.
6EBYQ TIL former Chicago Blackhawks goalie Sam LoPresti once killed a dolphin with basically a shiv, to feed 28 of his shipmates who were stranded on a lifeboat for 42 days, after a German torpedo took out their ship. They cooked the meat in a bucket full of kerosene soaked rags. Hockey players, man...
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