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TIL Switzerland is rigged with over 3000 demolition points to collapse bridges and create bomb shelters in event of an attack

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7wPx TIL Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, died of digestion problems in 1771 after eating a meal of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring, champagne, and 14 servings of his favorite dessert, semla in a bowl of hot milk. He is remembered by schoolchildren as “the king who ate himself to death.”
XEvL8 TIL what NAMBLA is.
9YGNM TIL Europe's first beer fountain in Žalec, Slovenia was built by the town community using the tax money collected from a resident who won the Eurojackpot lottery. In the fountain, it's possible to drink different beers from five taps with a special microchipped glass.
m78Y TIL that Johnny Knoxville injured his penis so badly in 2007 that he now has to use a catheter twice a day.
Y7p7G TIL the IRS still operates largely on mainframe computers running 60 year old code