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TIL France is the only country in Europe to be completely self-sufficient in basic food production.

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m1xVv TIL that Sir James Chadwick, the English physicist who discovered the neutron and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935, actually enrolled in Physics by mistake when he was a University student. He wanted to study maths. He also led the British team of the Manhattan project.
XEM6 TIL that Bender from Futurama was named after John Bender from the 1985 John Hughes film “The Breakfast Club”.
a8O9N TIL If you have consumed marijuana, wait for at least a month before traveling to Dubai. Marijuana can remain detectable in your system for up to 30 days and still count as possession as per Dubai law, which could result in a sentence of year or two.
VM94Q TIL: Eugene Debs was a 5 times socialist candidate for president, a union organizer, and orator. While at his sentence hearing for sedition, he said, "While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
awrlZ TIL of Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic British artist who can draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once. He can draw entire cities from memory, after just a single, short, helicopter ride. When he drew Rome, he drew the exact number of columns in the Pantheon