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TIL the Faroe Islands and Greenland are allowed to import 5x more live mussels into Belgium than other countries/territories.

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Wk1ld TIL in 1992 Toronto Blue Jays baseball player Joe Carter pulled an amazing prank on teammate Derek Bell by pretending to raffle off his car mid-game. He rode onto the field in it and the announcer read off a fake winning ticket
RVg4 TIL the assassination of the Archduke of Austria, which set off WWI, was due to a wrong turn. After a first failed attempt and the conspirators giving up on the mission, the Archduke decided to visit the injured in the hospital and accidentally drove past one of them after taking a wrong turn.
rRDry TIL that James Madison was only 5’4” and about 100 pounds
awGw0 TIL that the world’s first recipient of silicone breast implants went to the plastic surgeon just to get a tattoo removed and her ears done.
v1kWK TIL the vagina loquens, or "talking vagina", is a significant tradition in literature and art, dating back to the ancient folklore motif of the "talking cunt".