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TIL that in Western Australia, it is illegal to possess more than 50kg/110lb of potatoes.

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l7KQV TIL about Malbolge, a programming language designed to be nearly impossible to use. It took 2 years for the first program to appear and its author has never written a program with it.
0dbAR TIL in 1997 a crew of 6 robbed $18.9m in cash from the Dunbar Armored facility in LA; one of them had cased it while working there. They left almost no evidence & concealed their wealth for 2 yrs until one of them paid a broker with bills still in the original currency straps, which got them caught.
WkKvA TIL Partnership for a Drug-Free America, which used to air many PSAs through the 80s to the mid-2000s, was actually funded by alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies. The ads steered clear warnings about legal drugs being abused.
GYMe1 TIL there's a tree of Italian pasta dishes with Cacio E Pepe at the very top, and each branch below changing by adding only one ingredient.
BgYd TIL that the Seinfeld episode where Jerry refuses to race by cryptically telling people “I choose not to run” is a play on Calvin Coolidge, who said nearly the same thing when he decided not to run for re-election in 1928.