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TIL a European "Get Some Nuts" Snickers commercial featuring Mr. T using a vehicle-mounted rotary machine gun to shoot Snickers bars at a speedwalker for being a "disgrace to the man race" was pulled in 2008 after a group in the U.S. complained that the advertisement was homophobic.

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5Ylbk TIL Members are forbidden from eating and drinking in the British Parliamentary chambers with only one exception. The Chancellor of the Exchequer may have an alcoholic beverage while delivering the Budget statement.
7n4r TIL of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, a group that “supports human extinction primarily because… it would prevent environmental degradation.”
1aJkW Have you ever played with a pocket-sized laser, wondering how far its light would travel? Could you, a naughty student inside a classroom on Earth, annoy a poor substitute teacher on Mars by waggling your laser pointer at him? T​he short answer: no. By the time the light finally reached Mars, the glint would be a million times dimmer than the faintest light visible to the human eye.
yVk9p TIL that SMS Schleswig-Holstein fired the first shots of World War II when she bombarded the Polish base at Danzig's Westerplatte in the early morning hours of 1 September 1939.
PYAWL TIL that 1 in every 18 people have a third nipple.