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TIL that sour patch kids are known as "Very Bad Kids" in France.

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9wAG6 TIL In 1953, US Air Defense Command tracked a UAP in restricted airspace over Lake Superior. A Northrop F-89C Scorpion was scrambled to intercept the UAP. The F-89 simply vanished from radar once it engaged with the UAP and never returned. Zero of the wreckage or pilots' remains were ever recovered.
0wgJM TIL that Soviet Cosmonauts take shotguns to space to protect themselves from Siberian wilderness upon re-entry back to earth.
YRxA TIL if officials awarded Lance Armstrong’s 2005 Tour De France title to the next fastest finisher who has never been linked to doping, they’d have to give it to the 23rd place finisher
6E5O7 TIL that BTS, a seven-member South Korean boy band, brings in more than $3.6 billion to South Korea's economy each year, and were the reason one in every 13 foreign tourists visited the country in 2018.
6EZG8 TIL In Vermont public nudity is legal if you leave the house naked, but public disrobing is illegal