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TIL that in Singapore sales for "discipline" canes increase during times when students prepare for exams.

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Y48r TIL that during WWII, other candy manufacturers donated their sugar rations to keep Life Savers in production so that the little candies could be shared with Armed Forces as a “tasty reminder of life at home”.
Wny9 TIL the crack in the Liberty Bell is from a repair job. In 1846, metal workers widened the thin crack to prevent it from spreading further and to restore the tone of the bell by using a technique called “stop drilling”. But the repair job produced a second crack that silenced the bell forever.
5WLP TIL in AD 1378 an iconoclastic Sufi Muslim chiseled off the nose of the Great Sphinx of Giza after noticing that area farmers worshiped the monument in hopes of reaping a good harvest. He was subsequently lynched by the angry locals for vandalism.
yV8BM TIL that a tense meeting at the 1977 Golden Globe Ceremony between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, began a twenty year rivalry between the two.
xVgDB TIL of Richard Colvin Cox, “the only West Point cadet to have disappeared without a trace”.