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TIL: The US purple Skittles taste different from those elsewhere due to the ban of blackcurrent in the 20th century which is the flavour of the sweets outside of the US

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WkOYo TIL Human sperm can have antidepressant qualities
VB1w0 TIL - The first automotive recall was for the Ford Model T due to chigger bites. Ford either used Spanish Moss for seat padding or Spanish Moss as stuffing for Cypress wood crates, with the Cypress being used for the dashboard. Both items created a small ecosystem for the chiggers.
gLKX TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web”
oJWR TIL that it is illegal to die in Svalbard because the permafrost doesn’t allow the bodies to decompose. The dead or dying is transferred to the Norwegian main land.
Z0lR TIL New Zealand was undiscovered and COMPLETELY DEVOID of human beings no more than 800 years ago.