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TIL Oreos are vegan and the “creme” filling contains no milk products.

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7rjKp TIL each year during their northern migration from Mexico to the US, thousands of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are known to individually fly 500 miles nonstop across the open water of the Gulf of Mexico to reach U.S. shores. It takes approximately 18-22 hours to complete this solitary flight.
0dX9A TIL that Princess Anne was briefly involved with a man named Andrew Parker Bowles. He would later marry Camilla Shand. Later, Camilla Parker Bowles would have an affair with and eventually marry Prince Charles, Anne's brother.
X0meQ TIL King George III never visited Hanover despite being its Elector and later, King, and never left southern England in his entire life.
nWllY TIL that European trucks are rarely sold in the US was due to a 25% retaliatory tariff (aka the "Chicken Tax") on European trucks, which was put into place after European countries got together and imposed tariffs on imported chickens from the US.
Q5E9 TIL the term ‘whipping boy’ comes from english nobility, where someone was assigned to take corporal punishment instead of royalty