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TIL that giving children the names of Nutella, Manhattan, Prince William or Mini Cooper are illegal in France.

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xe51 TIL North Korea has the 4th largest army, the largest special forces and the largest submarine fleet in the world.
7vBP TIL that after recovering from years of opoid (specifically vicodin and methadone) addiction, actor Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing from Friends) received a Champion of Recovery award from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy for opening a sober living home in his Malibu mansion
P10Mn TIL in addition to the Red Cross, the Red Crystal and the Red Crescent, the Geneva Conventions also recognizes the Red Lion and Sun, which was formerly used by Iran before 1980
b9gJ7 TIL the state name Idaho does not mean anything; despite claims that it refers to an Indian term, the man who suggested the name later admitted that he made it up.
VOwG TIL a blue whale’s mouth cavity is so vast it can engulf a volume of water equivalent to its own body mass.