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TIL that licence plates in the Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears

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9wPy6 TIL that until 2012, when they switched to a bacterial source, Roche Pharmaceuticals used up to 90% of the world's annual star anise crop to produce shikimic acid, a chemical intermediate used in the synthesis of oseltamivir (Tamiflu)
8a9nP TIL At the Suomenlinna Prison in Finland, the only thing keeping the inmates in is a yellow picket fence.
VBMnm TIL in 1975 the Grateful Dead played a live show in which they mic'd up live, caged crickets for a song; the drummer is credited with playing "percussion and crickets."
bjga TIL: Kim Jong Un was voted Time Magazine’s person of the year in 2012 after 4chan users hijacked the magazine’s online polls
OPXY TIL that people, especially the youth, have been perceived by older generations as “ruining” the English language for centuries.