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TIL a woman was sentenced to 40 days in prison and deported from Denmark for begging.

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Op0a TIL if a submarine is downed and there is no submarine rescue vehicle nearby, the crew put on special pressurised suits which float them to the top and act as a one man life raft.
ZwZY TIL that the Nobel prize is sometimes called No-Bell prize because Joycelyn Bell Burnell did not share in the 1974 Nobel Prize for the first observation of radio pulsars, despite the fact that she was the one who had actually observed them.
Rwv9 TIL that Nicolas Cage preferred doing a scene where he picked up a poisonous copperhead rather than one that had no poison because it would relax him and he wouldn’t have to act.
x6No TIL NYC was the capital of the United States between 1789 and 1790.
QggE TIL During pregnancy some women turn porcelain toilet seats purple after sitting on them.