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TIL there is an Airport in Italy that will let you bring 500g of liquid on a plane, so long as it is Pesto.

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m1YOO TIL Following World War One Canada sent 799 body parts extracted from soldiers back to Canada to be part of a museum. The museum was never built, instead the organs became teaching aids at McGill University before being destroyed around 1960.
5Y07D TIL after being called out on local TV, 2 porch pirates caught on camera returned a package of replica WWE belts (belonging to a 5-yr-old autistic boy with a brain tumor) with a note that read: “After seeing ourselves looking like low lives on the news, we have both decided to get clean and sober.”
R7YZ6 TIL: The man that stopped the tanks in Tiananmen Square walked away without getting hurt.
EOJx TIL that the fingerprints of koalas are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be easily confused at a crime scene.
DPmr TIL that in WWI, the Scottish Black Watch infantry were called, “The Ladies from Hell” because of their kilts and vicious fighting ability.