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TIL Britons consume 97% of the worlds tinned baked beans

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V8PG TIL the Fiddle and the Violin are the exact same instrument. The difference is the type of music you play with one or the other.
VM8P8 TIL during the Cold War, there was a plan in which the Americans would drop extra-large condoms labeled 'medium' all over the Soviet army so that they would think that all American men had huge penises and they would feel inferior and quit. However it was never executed
xVe1 TIL In 1984 Terry Williams was sentenced to death for murdering two men. After his sentencing, when jurors learned these men had repeatedly raped Williams for years, several came forward to say they no longer supported his death sentence. He is scheduled to be executed on October 3rd, 2012.
VE8Q TIL that Pope John Paul II once told Stephen Hawking to not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God.
wLY1J TIL during his year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly's feet became very soft "like newborn baby feet", because all the calluses fell off due to weightlessness.