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TIL in 2014 a man was arrested for smuggling drugs stuffed inside an anti-drugs teddy bear.

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pleQ TIL the US state of Maryland had a colony in Africa called the Republic of Maryland.
Q0QM TIL that in the strictest sense only English, Spanish and French are considered world languages
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