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TIL Scotland's national motto is essentially "F#ck around and find out."

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jNmNN TIL that in 2007 the musician Shaggy was awarded the Jamaican Order of Distinction with the rank of Commander, meaning his proper title is "Commander Shaggy".
d8aAE TIL in 2018, Two Raccoons drunk on crab apples cause false rabies scare in West Virginia
QZa9 TIL that, adjusted for inflation, Afghanistan has sucked in more money than was spent stabilising all of Europe under the Marshall Plan after WWII
e0Ld6 TIL 10-year-old Olivia Farnsworth has never been able to feel pain or hunger, and cannot sleep without being heavily medicated. Due to her symptoms revolving from Chromosome 6 Deletion, she had been able to withstand a car accident without distress.
1bn4 TIL The French tried to counter attack Germany in 1939, but were repulsed by “The silent soldier”…“a definitive weapon of the war”. New German mines that would fire themselves out of the ground before going off, wounding not just the soldier, but everybody else around them, as well.