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TIL that candy cigarettes are fully illegal in 12 countries.

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DQEAj TIL that Atropine (the drug used to dilate eyes) is made from the "Belladonna plant". The name "bella donna" is derived from Italian and means "beautiful woman", because the herb was used hundreds of years ago by women to dilate their pupils to make them appear seductive.
VBwV0 TIL in 1963 a 16 year old sent a four-question survey to 150 well-known authors (75 of which replied) in order to prove to his English teacher that writers don't intentionally add symbolic content to their books.
EVAp TIL a Mexican priest supported an orphanage for 23 years as a lucha libre wrestler. He is known as Fray Tormenta.
4k85R TIL the Solomon Islands were named as such because the explorer who discovered them thought they were the mythical land of Ophir, mentioned in the Bible as where King Solomon acquired his gold
v1kPx TIL in 1938 William Cooper led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League to the German Consulate in Melbourne to hand over a petition protesting the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany.” 70 years later Israel planted 70 trees in remembrance of the protest