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TIL Canada wants complete disarmament of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons

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JYVYv TIL the word cheesecake has sexual connotations and was used in the 1660s to describe promiscuous women
yygp TIL That the federal government takes a percentage (as high as 47% in recent years) of every raisin farmer’s crops… every year… without paying for them. This is due to an arcane law still on the books from WWII reconstruction.
BN5k TIL The Roman Emperor Calligula was assassinated by his head body guard after making one too many gay jokes.
lBnN TIL a Swiss national is serving a 4 year jail term in UAE, after 3 poppy seeds from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow airport were found on his clothes.
Eggv0 TIL about Louis Remme, who rode on horseback nonstop from Sacramento to Portland in 1855, racing against the ship-borne news of a bank run that would prevent him from withdrawing his own money.