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TIL that thanks to a substance called "Snus", the rate of daily smokers in Sweden has been reduced to 5%

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XERB6 TIL avocados evolved to be eaten whole by four ton giant sloths
BArd TIL The Beatles’, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released June 1, 1967 and was the first time lyrics had ever been included with an album cover.
W7LOA TIL In the 19th Century, women cyclists were warned they might get "bicycle face" with bulging eyes and jutting chins.
5NdP TIL the constitution of the Bhutan specifies that 60% of the country must remain forested.
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.