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TIL Nazis Planned to Assassinate Winston Churchill with an Exploding Chocolate Bar but the plot was uncovered by british spies

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N741e TIL that Queen Victoria was addicted to cocaine infused chewing gum
R5kJ8 TIL Troll dolls were invented in 1959 by a Danish fisherman who couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a Christmas present. At its peak, 38,000 trolls were sold everyday until the hype faded away.
Z8X8G TIL about Scheele’s Green, a popular pigment in the 1800s made with deadly arsenic. One famous death was of a flowermaker, who dusted the pigment onto fake foliage. “She vomited green waters; the whites of her eyes had turned green, and she told her doctor that ‘everything she looked at was green.’”
9YVLQ TIL when the territory of Wyoming applied to join the US, congress told them they'd have to stop letting women vote. Their response was "We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women”. In 1890 they joined as the first and only state to allow women to vote.
e8Z4 TIL that before the Eraser was invented people used soft bread crumbs to erase pencil marks