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TIL your 2016 calendar is reusable in 2044, 2072, and 2112. In 2017, you can re-use calendars from these years: 2006, 1995, 1989, 1978, 1967, 1961, 1950, 1939, 1933, and 1922.

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r70o TIL in 2009 a man was arrested for child pornography in an airport while carrying a dvd of porn star Lupe Fuentes. When she found out, she immediately flew to the courtroom to prove she was over 18.
VBW94 TIL The French have "bécasse pâté" a dish made from Tapeworms: It consists of an oven roasted woodcock whose intestines are infested with the tapeworm Amoebotaenia lumbrici. After the bird is roasted whole with the innards intact, the intestines are removed and chopped up into a pâté.
gEyb TIL Lord Byron was not allowed to keep his pet dog while he was at Trinity College. He kept a pet bear instead as there were no rules against having one.
1a8Gd TIL that the San Marino military maintains a crossbow corps
Mewya TIL that, during the so-called "Dark Ages" of Europe, the Muslim World was having an "Enlightened," or "Golden" Age, in part, because the Muslims adopted "modern" numbers from the Hindus as it was "easier" to do mathematics while the rest of Europe kept Roman Numerals (linked playlist with video).