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TIl that in 1994 during an attempted diplomatic visit to Ireland Boris Yeltsin caused a diplomatic incident when his plane landed at Shannon airport and he failed to step off the plane onto Irish soil because he was too drunk to walk

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nW7VW TIL chickpeas are the healthiest bean in the legume family (11g protein and 35g fiber in 1 cup) and also fixes it's own nitrogen from the atmosphere, leaving extra stores of the nutrient in the soil for future crops to consume. Chickpeas can also, under proper farming conditions, sequester carbon.
D1JBg TIL Ben from Ben & Jerry's suffers from anosmia, meaning he has almost no sense of smell/taste. This is why so many flavors feature chunks as he would add larger and larger pieces to the ice cream to satisfy his need for texture in food
08RL TIL that in Germany, attempting to escape from the prison is completely legal — Getting yourself free is considered a basic human instinct.
KOn7a TIL that in the UK, sprinkles are called hundreds and thousands
JY67B TIL German man Oskar Speck kayaked from Germany to Australia over the period 1932-1939. On his arrival in Australia, shortly after the start of WWII, Speck was interned as an enemy foreigner. He remained in prisoner-of-war camps for the duration of the war, but stayed in the country after the war