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TIL that the national animal of Scotland is the unicorn

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VB1PB TIL about the Obliteration Room housed in London where visitors are invited to cover over with stickers to eliminate the traces of the original white room through the act of communal “obliteration.”
9VoB TIL that the urban legend of carrots giving night vision was invented as a cover-up by the British RAF in WWII. They were able to shoot down German planes at night using radar; rather than letting the enemy know about their technology, they claimed it was carrots that gave the gunners night vision