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TIL Dead Birds were a common theme on Victorian Christmas cards

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pmdN TIL that in late 2007, a street in Central London had to be shut down due to reports of a chemical weapons attack. It was actually a Thai restaurant cooking up hot sauce.
ADWJB TIL violinist Lili Haydn was allowed to choose her own name as a child, and for a time was known as 'Helicopter'
bLEZ TIL The Honda City Turbo is a car that included a little motorized folding scooter designed to fit in the trunk.
OoRER TIL that A&W restaurants in Canada are completely separate from A&W restaurants in the rest of the world, and have been their own entity since 1972.
4k1oR TIL Canada almost had a constitutional crisis during WWI due to imposing conscription; English Canadians supported the war due to British ties while French Canadians were adamantly against the war due to lack of loyalty to the UK or France