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TIL That Chris Brown is Banned From Entering the UK Because of His Assault Involving Rihanna

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LQVAd TIL the USA was supposed to adopt the metric system but the ship carrying the standardized meter and kilogram was hijacked by pirates in 1793 and the measurements never made it to the States
9e8m TIL Helen Keller was a radical socialist. After she expressed her socialist beliefs, news columnists who had once praised her then dismissed her stances based on her disabilities.
xVpmw TIL In Denmark if you are unmarried on your 25th birthday friends play a prank by blasting one with cinnamon. On your 30th birthday the cinnamon gets upgraded to pepper. Danes sometimes add eggs to the mix because it “helps with adhesion.”
bbDQ TIL Czechoslovak runner Emil Zátopek decided to compete in the marathon in the 1952 Olympics, despite never having run that distance in his life. Zátopek asked fellow runner Jim Peters, who he was racing alongside, if the pace was fast enough. When Peters said “no”, Zátopek sped up and won the race
a8N5N TIL in North Carolina, it is a class 3 misdemeanor to ‘use profanity on the highway’