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TIL that Marmite cannot be marketed/sold in the EU member state of Denmark because the licence required to market certain fortified foods in the country has not been applied for yet

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6Ymw TIL that four-leaf clovers are only rare in nature because 4 is not a number in the fibonacci sequnce
YrAd TIL that Finland celebrates “National Sleepy Head Day”, where the last person to in the house to wake up is thrown into water by the early risers.
xVg9b TIL that while filming There Will Be Blood, the director Paul Thomas Anderson tested the pyrotechnical effects of an oil fire, causing an enormous amount of smoke to intrude on the nearby set of No Country For Old Men, filming of No Country For Old men had to be delayed for a day because of this.
D1wYV TIL there was a Russian woman named Mariya Oktyabryskaya whose husband was killed by Nazi's in WW2, so she sold her house for a tank. With permission from the Soviet union, she went to kill Nazi's with her own tank, avenging her husband death.
JYx94 TIL that to encourage population growth after WWII, the USSR imposed an extra 6% "childlessness" tax on men between 25-50 years old and married women between 20-45 years old, who did not have children.