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TIL Tsar Peter the Great put a special tax on men who grew beards

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ZoQG TIL Mark Twain predicted his own death in 1909 “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” He died in 1910, a day after the comet returned.
4XO0g TIL during WWI, due to concerns the public would reject their product, American sauerkraut makers relabeled it as "Liberty Cabbage".
yVoPe TIL about "Bomb" a Canadian Sherman M4A2 tank that landed on Juno Beach on D Day and fought across Europe every day until the the words "Unload, clear guns, the war is over" came over the radio, indicating the end of the war. 4000km travelled, never missed a day of combat.
gMXxW TIL during the 1957 Christmas Speech by the Queen, freak radio conditions caused by sunspots resulted in American police radio chatter interfering with the broadcast. On one occasion, listeners could distinctly hear an American police officer say, "Joe, I'm gonna grab a quick coffee".
6gGQ TIL that China has a country-wide ban on WiFi, and uses their own proprietary version of WiFi!