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x6Bv0 TIL that about 12% of spices brought to the U.S. are contaminated with insects, rodent hairs and other things.
9w0k7 TIL Sir Christopher Lee, famous for roles like Count Dracula, Saruman in The Lord of the Rings, and Count Dooku in Star Wars, led a movie-like life. He was a descendant of Charlemagne, knighted war hero, heavy metal musician, Nazi hunter, and witnessed the last known public guillotine execution.
awaJy TIL in 1992, a couple donated their egg and sperm to a local hospital. In 2020, that frozen embryo was finally implanted into a woman which which resulted in the successful birth of the world's first '27-year-old' baby.
GY08j TIL that after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the country code top-level domain for Montenegro officially changed in 2007 from .yu to .me.
Bgbrd TIL in 2013 the UK government officially detained a portrait of renaissance singer Barbara Salutati. It was sold to a private buyer abroad but the government intervened to block it from leaving the country, citing cultural significance, on account of Barbara being Machiavelli's mistress