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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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D1GgJ TIL about Henry Tandey, the most highly decorated British private of World World I, who also became famous for supposedly not killing Adolf Hitler, then a German soldier, when he encountered him in Marcoing, France. However, Tandey's biographer and others believe the story is an urban legend.
XE9QR TIL of the "Buddhabrot set", a plot of points that are not in the fractal Mandelbrot set, that under certain plotting settings looks similar to a picture of a sitting Buddha.
v17nr TIL that the color “isabelline,” a yellowish-white, may have been named after Isabella I of Castile swore not to change her shift until the siege of Granada was over, expecting a quick victory; the siege took 8 months
woXv8 TIL After Leonardo da Vinci's death in 1519, his half-brother Bartolomeo attempted to replicate his genius by fathering a son by a woman from the same village as Leonardo's mother. The boy, Pierino da Vinci, was raised in one of Florence's finest art studios but sadly died young.
D1WRY TIL of the Office of the Future in Dubai, the first commercial building in the world to be 3D printed