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TIL One of Japan’s most popular mascots is an egg with crippling depression

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yyLV TIL in Denmark, refugees, and their descendants commit 73% more crime than average
pY58 TIL that when asked what caused Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney replied “In one word, George, drugs. Pot.” When the interviewer said “but you weren’t on it all the time” McCartney replied: “Yes, we were. Sgt. Pepper was a drug album.”
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