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TIL After banning pit bulls in 1991, the rate of dog bites in the UK remained the same.

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Rk8w TIL that Albert Hofmann discovered the effects of LSD by handling the compound without gloves, allowing for it to be absorbed through his fingertips inducing the first LSD trip ever.
R5jdQ TIL in the United States, Halloumi is a registered trademark owned by the government of Cyprus
w9g8 TIL the oldest animal ever was a 507 year old mollusc called Ming. It died because the British researchers who found it didn’t realize how old it was, so they froze it for research purposes
J1w5j TIL the founders of Adidas had been members of the Nazi party
oyJR TIL Algebra is based on arabic al-jebr meaning “reunion of broken parts”