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TIL grass snakes can live up to 25 years

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EYR7 TIL Thomas Paine, the man who inspired American independence, “was violently opposed to all international war, which he considered a conspiracy to subjugate and defraud peoples”
R5Vy8 TIL Metallica‘a first album “Kill ‘Em All” was originally to be titled “Metal Up Your Ass” with a picture of a hand clutching a dagger emerging from a toilet.
kOaee TIL In 2002, highly toxic counterfeit cigarettes were being sold in the UK. The cigarettes were produced in unhygienic factory conditions, included tobacco sweepings, sawdust, dirt, banned chemicals. The cigarettes accounted for at least a quarter of all cigarettes smoked in Britain that year.
lo6V1 TIL about John C. Beale, a man who pretended to be a CIA secret agent, flew around the world on first-class flights, stayed in high-end hotels and cost the taxpayers almost US$900,000.
nebyo TIL Benjamin Franklin was a popular author at 16 under the name Silence Dogood. The articles are written in the persona of a middle-aged woman and Franklin received several marriage proposals in the process. Franklin would slide these articles under the door of his brother's newspaper print shop.