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TIL Chris Brown is currently banned from entereng the UK, Australia, and New Zealand due to his criminal history.

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kAb5 TIL that a higher percentage of same-sex couples raise children together in Mississippi than in any other state
nWeNr TIL that a group of Geoducks, the largest burrowing clam in the world, is called a "bag". The name Geoduck was derived from an indigenous word meaning "genitals", or a phrase meaning "dig deep", or perhaps both, as a double-entendre. So a group of Geoducks is literally a "bag of dicks"
pY1MZ TIL that in 1974, the Buffalo Sabres drafted a fake Japanese player named Taro Tsujimoto as a hoax to protest the NHL’s draft procedure.
7lOx TIL that we have more than the 5 basic senses (hearing, feeling, seeing, smelling, and tasting). Other senses include magentoception, the ability to detect magnetic fields, as well as chronoception, the sense of time passing.
8elAX TIL that in Germany Vick's VapoRub is sold under the name Wick VapoRub because "Vick's", when pronounced in German, sounds too similar to the vulgar word fick.