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TIL the Norwegian Department of Health will send condoms (including strawberry flavoured ones) to any Norwegian address for free

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y4e TIL Fedex keeps empty planes in the sky to be able to respond to changing freight demand quickly
DQMDY TIL The anniversary edition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail film included a subtitle track called "Subtitles for people who do not like the film" and included snippets from Shakespeare's Henry IV pt 2.
NgxJ Til that during the Black death in England, physicians would cut pigeons from breast to back, break them open and apply them (while still alive) to the buboes to stop swelling
eO4n TIL that in Denmark, some teachers use Swedish names for numbers when introducing children to mathematics, because of the irregular structure of the Danish number system. For example, the Danish “71” is structured as “1 plus 3½ times 20”.
ZpRVv TIL that the roar of the MGM lion (Leo) is actually a tiger roar. The sound engineer determined that a lion's roar was not sufficiently ferocious, but a tiger's roar was.