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TIL that Scotland has 421 words for "snow".
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TIL that after a mention that Paul McCartney liked Jelly Babies, fans started throwing them at the Beatles during live concerts. In the USA, fans started throwing jelly beans at them after mistaking them to be the same thing. One concert had to be stopped twice because the Beatles kept getting hit.
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TIL that Aztecs were one of the few ancient civilizations where education was mandatory for everyone, boys and girls from all social status were educated at home and later at schools (although the kind of school depended on gender and class)
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TIL that the American flag used by the Apollo 11 crew was purchased at Sears for $5.50
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TIL: a “fair” coin toss doesn’t truly have a 50/50 chance of landing on either side, but rather a 51% chance of showing the side originally facing up, according to a 2004 Stanford study on angular dynamics
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TIL that some trees can have albinism