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VMxDk TIL that in 1872, politician Boss Tweed fled to Spain to escape being convicted on fraud charges. However, he was deported and sent back to the US after Spanish authorities saw a political cartoon of him and mistaked him for a child abductor.
rNLAw TIL: George Bernard Shaw was an advocate for reform to the English language. So much so, he funded the creation of the "Shavian Alphabet." A constructed alphabet based on phonetic spelling and specially designed sets of letters, each of which can be written with a single pen stroke.
Gm01 TIL that Paris Metro trains drive on the right rather than the left and its tunnels are narrower than main-line ones in order to prevent it from being absorbed into the national railway network
l7XKA TIL Jelly Babies we’re originally marketed as ‘Unclaimed Babies’
GwGG TIL There is a toothpaste named Black Man toothpaste that is sold by Colgate in asian countries. The name refers to stereotypically black males white teeth. In 1989 it held a 75% market share in Taiwan and is still sold today.