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TIL eggs do not need to be refrigerated unless they come from US or Canadian stores

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xOKo TIL the inspiration for the webcam came from a Computer Lab of the University of Cambridge. The cam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee pot by providing a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the coffee pot.
epKLn TIL it’s illegal for civilians to wear camouflage in 11 countries, including Jamaica, Barbados, and Zimbabwe, to prevent them from being mistaken for military personnel or law enforcement.
Agao TIL that there is a list of people detained in Guantanamo Bay for having a Casio F91W watch.
rKky TIL when executives first saw “A Charlie Brown Christmas” they said, “‘We’ll play it once and that will be all. Good try.” One of the animators stood up in the back of the room—he had had a couple of drinks—and he said, ‘It’s going to run for a hundred years,’ and then fell down.
1Ybd TIL that in 1982, Joe Strummer (frontman of The Clash) was pressured by his manager to go into hiding in Texas as a publicity stunt for the band’s upcoming tour. Strummer instead decided to genuinely disappear to France for months, where he “dicked around” and ran the Paris Marathon.