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

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rdjo TIL in 1917 journalist H.L. Mencken published a hoax news article stating bathtubs were popularized in the US by Pres. Millard Fillmore after he had one installed in the White House. Thirty years later, even after he admitted it was false, it was still being reprinted as fact.
b6yRE TIL The route traveled by the SS Badger car ferry across Lake Michigan is officially designated as the continuance route of U.S. 10 between Wisconsin and Michigan.
JYb61 TIL that the first point of the 1919 electoral program of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was "Universal suffrage on a regional basis, with proportional representation, vote and eligibility for women."
4bBN TIL As a knife-wielding assassin jumped out of a crowd of people & lunged toward the President of the Maldives, a quick-thinking Boy Scout who was standing in the crowd in his uniform grabbed the blade & saved the leader’s life. As in the US, the motto of the Maldivian Boy Scouts is: “Be Prepared.”
JeDj TIL A British sailor in WWII escaped his submarine from depths of 171 feet and managed to get to the surface and survive.