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TIL A set of British twins separated at birth and raised by different adopted parents, fell in love and got married only to realise that they were brother and sister

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5BRP TIL that in 1998 and 2001, Japan enacted a set of modifications to Japanese law called the “Happy Monday System,” which schedules as many state holidays as possible on Mondays to create three-day weekends for those that normally work a five-day work week.
5V9JQ TIL 660-ton pendulum protects Taipei 101 from earthquakes and typhoons. Similar technology is used in many other skyscrapers around the world.
4XBdN TIL that there's a legend that if the ravens of the Tower of London ever fly away, England will fall. Therefore, the wings of the ravens are clipped, so that they can't fly very far. Nevertheless, some still escape.
kOZLe TIL in the 1990s, a Russian mafia and Italian mafia organization participated in a literal money-laundering scheme, washing and bleaching the ink out of US$1 bills and reprinting them as $100s, for use in the post-Soviet bloc countries, where the bills might avoid detection as counterfeits.
Oom54 TIL Robert Downey Jr, after Iron Man 3, said he'd only do Iron Man 4 if Mel Gibson directs it