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TIL Candy Manufacturer Haribo Recalls Sweets After Cannabis Found In Them

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j4Rv TIL that when filming the movie Titanic they only built the port side of the ship. Scenes showing the starboard side were flipped in post production. As a result of this everything on the starboard side of the ship, from lettering to the buttons on costumes, had to be backwards during filming.
wLpWP TIL In Spanish, the word for manliness (la hombría) is feminine
BgOlr TIL two separate Mongol invasions of Japan were ended by typhoons that saved Japan from almost certain defeat.
YpJvG TIL that Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence explicitly condemned slavery. The Continental Congress insisted on removing these passages before the document was published.
ne0oW TIL New Mexico license plates are the only ones with USA on them because Americans don’t know it’s part of their country