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TIL ring pulls on cans are patented. Their use is to hold straws in place.

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VMnjQ TIL Princess Diana was 19 when Prince Charles, 31, proposed to her. Because royal custom required Charles marry a virgin nearly every other woman of good lineage nearer his age was disqualified.
RJm1 TIL that in 1953 Iranian coup the US and UK put a General in charge that had once tried to build a pro Nazi government in Iran and had been arrested as such. He replaced a democratically elected government.
8ZMZ TIL there is a village named Paris in Russia, in 2005 there was constructed a 1:5 replica of the Eiffel Tower.