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TIL that when the inventor of the shipping container died ships around the world blew their whistles simultaneously in tribute

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rK0e TIL Charlie Chaplin was born 4 days before Hitler and his character, Tramp, has the same mustache as him. This and being named a Jew and placed on a hitlist by Nazis inspired his film, The Great Dictator, where in the last speech he is actually talking to the audience as himself, not a character
jMER TIL it’s possible to fool Norwegian vending machines by using a 10 SYP Coin which is 18 times less the value of ‘the identical’ 20 NOK Coin
69Pn8 Til that Thailand bans the sale of alcohol on election days.
6EoRZ TIL Elizabeth Taylor‘s voluminous eyelashes were caused by a rare genetic mutation which was responsible for her having 2 rows of eyelashes.
bDN TIL That the possible arrangements for a deck of 52 cards, is larger than the number of seconds that have elapsed since the universe began.