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TIL FOX News fell for a “ruse alleging purchase of $1 billion of jetpacks for LAPD, Fire Department” from the Weekly World News satirical news tabloid in 2010.

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yQ4lX TIL That Sri Lanka only became an island in 1480, when a cyclone destroyed the land bridge connecting it to mainland India.
MeKAa TIL that a Chef's hat traditionally has 100 folds. This is said to represent the number of different ways a chef knows how to cook eggs
VB0a0 TIL the air quality in Delhi, India, is on average between 200-500 AQI (poor to hazardous) from October through February. The worst was on November 8th 2017 during the “Great Smog of Delhi” when the smog reached its peak at 999 AQI.
yrrp TIL that during prohibition, an exemption was made for whiskey prescribed by a doctor and sold through a pharmacy. The Walgreens pharmacy chain grew from 20 retail stores to almost 400 during this period, from 1920 to 1933.
9YMor TIL that there were "Human Zoo's" across Europe displaying Africans. The last one, in Belgium, was closed in 1958. To stop visitors from throwing too much candy to the captives, they put up a sign that said, 'the blacks are fed by the organizing committee.'