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TIL that Switzerland is officially called the Swiss confederation and the name Switzerland has no mention in its constitution

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vwYD TIL a 38-year-old mother asked her son’s deeply-religious friend to pick her lotto numbers and agreed to share any winnings. The ticket was a jackpot winner. The mother refused to share the money until she was ordered to by the New York Supreme Court.
yQVJ8 TIL that judges deliver significantly harsher verdicts when they’re hungry
GAZy7 TIL In a 1998 study that studied 213 incidents of dogs ingesting marijuana (between 0.5 and 90 grams), all the dogs made a full recovery.
VX7B TIL When the soft drink 7 Up first launched in 1929 it contained lithium citrate, the same mood-stabilizing drug used to treat mania and bi-polar disorder
4XdvR TIL the reason a bag of potato chips contains mostly air is not to deceive the consumer into believing there is more product. Instead, the air (called slack fill) provides cushioning that protects the chips. "Less air, more chips but they are shattered or More air, fewer chips but they are whole"