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TIL the Aussies used to hold chariot races, Ancient Rome style, but with motorcycles instead of horses.

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xAE0 TIL In Ireland, any jokes regarding the potato famine of the 19th Century, should be avoided. Joking about this topic could in many instances cause a similar amount of offense (for example) as joking about the September 11, 2001 attacks would in the United States.
X006P TIL that as a child David Byrne was once mistaken for Norman Bates, which eventually inspired Byrne when creating the song 'Psycho Killer'
JEgB TIL smoking dead scorpions has become the latest drug craze in Pakistan and India, where it has been discovered to be an intoxicant.
l7pOa TIL in 1391, Geoffrey Chaucer, famous for the Cantebury Tales, also wrote what is considered the oldest written work in English about an elaborate scientific instrument--"A Treatise on the Astrolabe"