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TIL That after having been flown on more than 130 space shuttle missions between 1981 and 2011, M&M's created special space shuttle themed M&M's for the mission control team and astonauts of the final space shuttle mission on July 8th 2011

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VMX7Q TIL of Eddie Chapman - a professional criminal and prolific womanizer who became an important British double agent during WWII. He once convinced both British and German intelligence to house and pay each of his two fiancees in opposite warzones. He is the only Briton to win the German Iron Cross.
w9dE TIL In 2016, China passed a new law that banned people from seductively eating bananas on live stream.
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