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TIL cigarette filters are printed to look like cork.

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4kbn6 TIL in 2006 thieves in Buenos Aires tunneled underneath a bank & entered its vault. After a 7-hour standoff with 23 hostages, authorities entered to find $20m missing, a row of toy guns, & a note that said "In a neighborhood of rich people, without weapons or grudges, it's just money, not love."
OoNVL TIL that William Blake's poem "Jerusalem", considered the unofficial anthem of England and used in numerous English and British events, is inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus travelled to what is now England and visited Glastonbury
oRZyL TIL that “Kilroy Was Here” became popular during WWII & Stalin is rumored to have seen it in a bathroom stall
QggE TIL During pregnancy some women turn porcelain toilet seats purple after sitting on them.
YpNLP TIL British Parliament had an official discussion where they condemned the historical inaccuracies of the film U-571 and the rewriting of history to paint the Americans as heroes in an event they never even took part in. They felt it was unfair on the British sailors that lost their lives.