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TIL Sunflowers Soak Up Nuclear Radiation

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vPDm8 TIL a small region and hundred-thousands of people in the European Union were subject to ancient Ottoman laws and penal code till 2018
pYaRZ TIL in 1962. An epidemic of laughter broke out in Tanganyika. The outbreak began in a girls' school and then spread to other communities, where uncontrollable laughter affected an estimated 1,000 people. It lasted several months and 14 schools in the district were closed for quarantine.
yQGel TIL that in 1915, the lock millionaire Cecil Chubb bought his wife Stonehenge. She didn’t like it, so in 1918 he gave it to The United Kingdom.
ANGkx TIL that the Vatican sent an investigator to determine if the rumor about Shirley Temple being a 30 year old dwarf posing as a child was true
b91Rp TIL there is no Queen of England. The sovereign nation called England came to an end in 1707 following union with Scotland.