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TIL that Sri Lanka was called Ceylon under British rule.

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NXBbQ TIL fairy dust was added to Peter Pan so that children wouldn't hurt themselves trying to fly when they got home from seeing the play.
m0gR TIL that Fly Agaric mushrooms, which look like Super Mario Bros. mushrooms, contain a psychoactive chemical that can cause micropsia/macropsia, aka the illusion that objects around you are larger or smaller than they actually are.
rRQL4 TIL Honey doesn’t spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.
MkA7 TIL China is said to suffer from the worst brain drain in the world: 7 out of 10 students who enroll overseas never move back to live in China.
boG4 TIL in 1959, a white author underwent skin treatments to appear African-American, hitchhiked around the Pre-Civil Rights South to experience hatred and racism firsthand, then wrote a bestselling book about it.