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TIL Ketchup is sweeter in British Commonwealth countries than the United States

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eEE4 TIL that even though apes have learned to communicate with humans using sign language, none have ever asked a human a question.
byb4 TIL that in 1913, Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin all lived within a few miles of each other in central Vienna, with some of them being regulars at the same coffeehouses.
nek6B TIL that an exasperated village in West Virginia asked the Soviets for help to replacing a bridge after being ignored by the American government. The Soviets sent a journalist to investigate and within one hour the American government finally agreed to pay for it
moWM TIL that congressional approval for the first Gulf War was effected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.
W79AX TIL Vidkun Quisling, head of Norway's Nazi puppet government, and his second wife, Maria, adopted his first wife, Alexandra, as a foster daughter. He also never legally married Maria.