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TIL Sweden has a government monopoly on retail liquor sales to promote safe alcohol consumption

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k87E TIL in WWII,Germans tank drivers in Africa would drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over dung that was already overrun with tank tracks. In turn, Allies made mines looking like overrun dung
wMa7 TIL of John Joe Gray, who has been wanted by Texas police since January 2000, but they’re not willing to fight his religious separatist group in order to arrest him
mxl5E TIL Elmo is considered the “Little Red Menace” by “Sesame Street traditionalists” for stealing screen time away from other characters.
gkLA TIL that a “Cloaca” is an all-in-one hole which serves as a pee-hole + ass-hole + birth hole + in/out sex-hole. Birds have this all-purpose hole, as do some mammals, and 1 in 20,000 humans. Some turtles even breath through it, making it a 5-purpose hole for them.
5V0LQ TIL 24 year old George Jetson knocked up Jane when she was 16 or 17.