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TIL that Kinder Surprise eggs are illegal to import into the USA

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gYA7 TIL that NASA wouldn’t launch the space shuttle if the mission ran from December to January because the on board computers were not designed to handle the end if year rollover.
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rRX41 TIL that Italy is the most-tattooed nation on earth; 48% of the adult population has at least one tattoo
8aXoL TIL that Dionne Quan, voice actress of Nickelodeon characters such as Kimi from The Rugrats, is legally blind and has all of her scripts printed in Braille.
pY6PZ TIL that according to a recent study, 93% of YouTube users skip ads which can only be skipped after viewing the first 5 seconds.