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TIL that in the Czech Republic denial of communist-perpetrated atrocities is illegal.

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5VoAR TIL that 3.6% of all current cancer cases worldwide are attributable to drinking alcohol
dDaV8 TIL the first scientific specimen of the world's largest butterfly, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, was collected "with the aid of a small shotgun"
WyLo TIL Paul Newman was expelled from Ohio University after rolling a beer keg down Jeff Hill and crashing it into the president’s car.
P1WQw TIL that longer novels are more likely to win literary awards (like the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the National Book Award for Fiction)
kJGVE TIL the smallest known insects are wasps and that the family they belong to contains around 1400 species, collectively known as fairy wasps or fairyflies. They include the world’s smallest flying insect, barely bigger than the width of a human hair.