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TIL England helds an annual World’s Biggest Liar competition,where competitors from around the world have five minutes to tell the biggest and most convincing lie they can.

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v16WK TIL in 2015 Starbucks tried to encourage more customers to bring their own cups but instead fewer did
rRdEW TIL of Terence Kirk, an American soldier who was captured by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor day and spent the entire war at a brutal prison camp. While there, he built a camera out of scrap, and took many pictures. After the war, he was put under a gag order, and only told his story 38 years later.
evA5 TIL Australia has 10,685 beaches. You could visit a new beach everyday for 29 years.
wLVwE TIL Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write "The Wind Cries Mary" as an apology after having a heated argument with his girlfriend, Kathy Mary Etchingham, over her lumpy mashed potatoes.
w1BJ TIL Pokemon was banned in Turkey, because two children tried to imitate their favorite Pokemon and fly