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TIL Fake five-star reviews are bought and sold online in the UK. These fake reviews are estimated to influence £23 billion of UK customer spending every year.

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a8x4J TIL only ten countries officially recognize a national sport - and despite their popularities, countries like the United States, England, Japan and China don't recognize baseball, football, sumo, or table tennis as such. Canada is also the only country to recognize two: ice hockey and lacrosse.
l7LyK TIL of the pitch drop experiment created in 1927 by Thomas Parnell. The experiment shows how tar pitch is a liquid and not a solid and a single drop can take years to actually drop.
j6rQM TIL that there is virtually no difference between prescription antibiotics and OTC antibiotics for fish, the 2 can be used interchangeably in cases of emergency (please do not think that this is a good idea to do as misuse of antibiotics is the reason we're facing antibiotic resistant bacteria)
xoE0 TIL Bruce Willis bought 12,000 girl scout cookies from his daughter and sent them to troops in the middle east and sailors among the USS John F Kennedy
kJwmW TIL : The Blue Angels do not wear G-suits despite performing high-G manoeuvres as it would hinder their ability to execute their delicate choreography in the sky