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TIL that the American candies Swedish Fish and Lemonheads are banned in the UK

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X98X TIL the UK still retains 18 Queen’s Messengers, who hand deliver secret documents to British embassies worldwide, travelling undercover in business class. The diplomatic package has its own “passport”, as though it’s a human being, and is exempt from being searched or x-rayed by airport security.
1AKO TIL UC Berkeley is developing a free timeline of the history of everything– Starting from the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago to the present.
jEbQ TIL that a roman poet wrote such an NSFW poem, that it was not publicly translated until the late twentieth century.
rvB1 TIL a study published British Journal of Psychology concluded that those with higher intelligence don’t require large social circles to be happy
XEabE TIL Johannes Kepler, an accomplished scientist, had written a science fiction novel The Dream. As a result, his mother had to face trial for practicing witchcraft. He tried to scientifically disprove 49 points of disgrace held up against his mother. She was arrested, 5 years into the ordeal.