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7rPpX TIL about the Year Without a Summer. In 1816, a combination of volcanic eruptions led to snow in June, the creation of the bicycle, and the writing of Frankenstein.
LE0 TIL you can be fined up to $2500 per Kinder Chocolate Egg if you try to bring them from Canada to US
9wXpB TIL that Alexander the Great's body did not decay for six days after his death. This has led scientists to believe that he may have been buried prematurely thanks to a disorder which caused him to be paralysed and appear to be dead.
a6vy TIL that the vehicles that rescued people from the Chernobyl disaster are now stored in a remote radioactive vehicle graveyard
E1gy0 TIL The word shilling comes from schilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere.