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TIL that seaweeds are not plants.

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Ov5X TIL at three years old, Nicole Richie was given to Lionel Richie by her parents as they couldn’t financially afford to take care of her. They trusted that he could provide for her throughout her life. Richie legally adopted her when she was nine.
4X9Zb TIL "Antwerp diamond heist" dubbed the "heist of the century". Around $100 million worth loose diamonds, gold, and jewellery were stolen. It took place in Antwerp,Belgium in 2003.Though arrests were made and time was served, most of the diamonds stolen remain unrecovered.
b6rAE TIL Boeing used potatoes to test in-flight Wi-Fi
nWlMd TIL The expression ‘sweet Fanny Adams’ was coined in 1869 by sailors in the Royal Navy, whose macabre humour likened the contents of their tinned meat to Fanny’s remains. From this it gradually became a euphemism for ‘sweet nothing’.
yQXVX TIL that in medieval england they used notched wooden sticks as receipt for taxes. This was in use until the XIX century when they decided to destroy the "records"... and it provoked the 1834 fire that consumed the Palace of Westminster.