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TIL Chinese censorship has banned Big Yellow Rubber Ducks, Leaders doing Gangnam Style, Penis shaped buildings, Pictures of Empty Chairs, and TV shows that feature Time Travel.

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e0v14 TIL that the name of Monaco, the second-smallest and wealthiest country in the world, comes from the Greek "μόνοικος", "single house", which bears the sense of a people either settled in a "single habitation" or of "living apart" from others
kOPQ5 TIL an Australian Woman posted a selfie on Facebook of her holding up a winning horse race ticket. One of her FB friends took that picture with the barcode and claimed the winnings before she could.
VM8bQ TIL dead squids continue to try and reproduce if they haven't been boiled properly.
ngJP TIL America’s first multi-millionaire, John Jacob Astor, was an opium dealer.
5YeNR TIL That when fluoride was first introduced to American water supplies in the 1940s and 50s it was criticized as a Communist plot to socialize medicine and deplete the brain power of American children.