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TIL: Fashion houses would send handbags from their rivals to Snooki in a bid to damage their reputations.

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Ev1V TIL that there an aluminum cent was planned to be released in 1974, but this proposal was later dropped and the U.S. Mint’s stockpiles of these cents got destroyed. However, a few aluminum cents not returned to the Mint are believed to remain in existence.
N7L76 [TIL] that the soldiers who guarded the Nuremberg War Trials were former Waffen SS
EgKOV TIL the legal drinking age in the UK is 5.
KYRNw TIL the King of Hanover offered convicts free passage to America with fake passports and names as an alternative to a costly prison sentence
9YnJr TIL that during the peak of the cold war, one of the tasks given to Niel Armstrong was to place two Soviet medals on the moon to honour their fallen Soviet competitors.