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TIL that Kinder Suprise eggs are now unbanned in the USA

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QJGYe TIL Beauty and the Beast was written in 1740 as a critique of the forced marriages between 13-15 yr old girls to adult men common at the time. Later versions shifted the emphasis to teach young girls "good manners and how to deal with the idea of marrying young and being in an arranged marriage."
aBDb TIL that Adrien Brody is one of the only Saturday Night Live hosts to improvise lines during the show and was subsequently banned from ever hosting again
4kNmb TIL A gray-haired woman from Ireland successfully shot Mussolini in the nose in 1926
b9vAN TIL Facebook's facial recognition system was found to outperform similar systems used by the FBI. Where Facebook has a 98% accuracy rating in identifying faces, the FBI had a success rate of 85%.
BrDyx TIL The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on earth, with some regions having never recorded any rainfall