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TIL frosting is a buttery, thick coating for a cake while icing is a sugary, thin glaze that hardens when dry.

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vQKx TIL the UK’s “God Save the Queen” was the first national anthem and was adopted by other countries such as Russia (until 1833), Germany (until 1918), Iceland (until 1944), Switzerland (until 1961), Liechtenstein and New Zealand. It was played twice before a Liechtenstein-England soccer game in 2003.
e0wbJ TIL there's a stone age tribe of people untouched by civilization who kill you with arrows if you come near their island
XE11D TIL American English is more homogeneous than British English. It is more difficult to tell where an American is from in the US than it is to tell where a Brit is from in the UK.
rNnA1 TIL of English financier Clarence Hatry. His fraudulent operations, wiped the equivalent to 1.8 billion today off the market, and lead in part to the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Hatry who served as a librarian while in prison, would later acquire and revitalise the bookshop Hatchards.
WLGL TIL that the CEO of Olympus was fired when he discovered that $1.6billion of the company’s money had been paid to the yakuza.