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TIL In-N-Out launched a one-day pop-up store in London, and sold out in one hour

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9Kvr TIL that 30 british officers tried to escape POW camp “Castle Colditz” (Oflag IV-C) by digging a tunnel. Because they read the compass wrong, they landed in the wine cellar of a german colonel. There they drank 137 bottles of wine, filled them with their urine and placed them back.
VMxeQ TIL that the 1963 return of the village of Elten from the Netherlands to West Germany caused a bizarre 'smuggling' operation. Businessmen parked hundreds of trucks full of butter in the town on the night before the handover, dodging German import taxes when the border crossed the goods the next day
78PxM TIL that honey never spoils! Archaeologists have discovered pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old, and it is still perfectly edible.
4rdg TIL I learned that you should only use a dab of toothpaste. The idea of filling the entire toothbrush is a marketing tool used to sell more toothpaste.
loyDG TIL Herb Washington, the only "designated runner" in MLB history had a clause in his contract requiring a mustache. Unable to grow a full mustache, he used an eyebrow pencil to simulate one.