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TIL in Denmark you had to officially check underneath your vehicle to make sure there aren't children hiding/sleeping there.

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b95X4 TIL There was a Sicilian separatist movement after WW2 whose main goal was the annexation of Sicily to the USA as the 49th state, they got 8.8% of the votes in 1947's elections.
APQB TIL that a school had to be shut down after 6th graders sprayed too much Axe, and several kids had to be hospitalised for it.
WV8X TIL Albert Einstein once used a $1,500 check from Rockefeller Foundation as a bookmark, and then he lost the book.
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