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TIL that in 2013, the Home Office of the United Kingdom hired advertising vans to drive around telling illegal immigrants to “go home or face arrest”.

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A5YB TIL the Morton salt company raised the national IQ by 3.5 points when they iodinized salt in America. Iodine is critical for normal neurodevelopment particularly during gestation.
BrVNL TIL that Ireland has 3 Peat fired power plants. Using peat taken from Irish bogs, its more polluting than Coal and is so inefficient it is subsided by the state.
MPrW TIL that flexibility is not about muscle elasticity, but about training your nervous system that further muscle stretching is safe, so it won’t fire pain signals to the brain. We can all do a split under anesthesia
KPLG TIL Keanu Reeve’s mother was a stripper and his father was a drug dealer
8aR0K TIL there is believed to be only one remaining Jew in Afghanistan. He has special permission to butcher his own meat according to Kosher law, and is caretaker to the only remaining synagogue in Kabul. Despite his family having emigrated to Israel, he himself refuses: "Why should I leave?"