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TIL that Cadbury creme eggs are just filled with melted fondant...

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9YdxQ TIL that Keith Richards went to court expecting a multi-year jail sentence but ordered to give a benefit concert for the blind instead.
5VR0r TIL the revolution that brought about fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia was triggered by the killing of Martin Šmíd, a student at the University of Prague who was killed during a police raid on a student demonstration on November 17, 1989. Šmíd, however, wasn't real.
OGXZR TIL that Gerard Butler was law graduate and then a trainee lawyer. However, he was fired a week before being qualified due to his habits of drinking and partying and missing work.
vKLx TIL in the 80’s Bayer sold contaminated blood products after safer versions became available. Although the product was tainted with HIV, a concern discussed by Bayer and the FDA, there was an impression of protecting the companies’ profits at the cost of infecting large numbers of people with HIV.
a8wXb TIL athletes use menthol to stay cool, but overdose and death is possible