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TILed that there is a geocache on the International Space Station.

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69Qdw TIL about Scheele’s Green (aka Schloss Green), an arsenic-laced artificial color very popular in the 19th century, showing up in artificial flowers, candles, toys, fashionable ladies’ clothing, soap, beauty products, confections, and wallpaper and leading to scores of deaths.
VB46k TIL there exists an Italian exclave within Switzerland named Campione d’Italia. It is only one square mile in area and it houses Europe’s largest and oldest casino
Q16k TIL the official name of Mexico is the United Mexican States.
k9A4 TIL when elephants ‘dance’, they’re really mentally ill and depressed from confinement and restriction from freedom and socialising
oRR5r TIL that Disney doesn't own the copyright to their theme tune, "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 1940's Pinocchio. The rights to that song, as well as several other Disney songs, were sold in 1933 to a music publisher because Disney "had no means of commercially exploiting" them at the time.