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TIL the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies record one song every album while in the nude

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GYjvE TIL Hawaii observes Hawaii Standard Time all year. There are no Daylight Saving Time clock changes.
ep4X5 TIL that Australians sell a product called "sonic animal guards" (colloquially known as "kangaroo scarers").
Lk0WP TIL that the street in front of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest was named in honor of Liviu Librescu, Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, he is renown for his heroism during the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting.
L9P TIL Queen Victoria smoked pot to ease the pain of childbirth
X9pE TIL in the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.