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TIL that the first Indian restaurant in the UK predates the first fish and chip joint by at least 49 years

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69Br7 TIL that during the 1960-70s, the Danish government had doctors fit intrauterine devices (IUDs) into thousands of Greenlandic Inuit girls and women, without their knowledge or consent, as part of a program to control the indigenous birth rate in Greenland
m1kDE TIL Boeing offered to install solid rockets on their early 727-200 airliners back in the 1960s and 1970s. These were for emergency thrust in the event of an engine failure during takeoff at high altitude airports. Only twelve 727s ever had them, all with Mexicana Airlines for use at Mexico City.
GypG TIL there is a carnivorous plant big enough to drown and digest rats.
eW9n TIL Jackie Chan’s family was so poor he was almost sold to a wealthy British Couple when he was still a baby
XE7Kr TIL over a million people live in underground nuclear bunkers beneath the streets of Beijing.