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TIl that customers can be fined up to tens of thousands of dollars for opening a can of the Swedish delicacy surströmming in British Airlines.

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DbV TIL that the 1806 version of “Jack & Jill” has fifteen verses and that falling down the hill isn’t their only misfortune
b6ob4 TIL about James Shields, an American Politician who has the distinction of being the only person in U.S. history to serve as a Senator for three different states; he represented Illinois from 1849 to 1855, Minnesota from 1858 to 1859, and Missouri in 1879.
PYAaE TIL that in the Science of Discworld books, which tells of a flat "earth" floating through space, there is a organization called Omnianism, on Discworld, that believes the Discworld is round.
4d0R TIL The Pixar movie Cars’ original script was called ‘The Yellow Car’ and it was about an “electric car living in a gas-guzzling world”
PYl6g TIL about Father Francis Gleeson, an Army chaplain during WWI. At the Battle of Ypres, among heavy casualties, he tore off the badges that marked him as a non-combatant so he could take command and hold the line.