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TIL South Carolina has the only tea plantation in North America

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yVyap TIL that during WW1 the British government outlawed the act of buying somebody else a drink with the “No treating order”
AAX7 TIL that while in full swing in the US during the 50s, lobotomy was already banned in many countries including the Soviet Union which deemed the procedure contrary to the principles of humanity.
wLpQ1 TIL: In 2015, HitchBOT, a cheerful hitchhiking robot which was dependent on strangers to reach its destination as an experiment, managed to travel across the Netherlands, Canada, and Germany. It was beheaded after two weeks in the US after it ventured into Philadelphia.