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TIL Chef Gordon Ramsey has a homeless drug addicted brother
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TIL An advertising campaign for Swedish fashion company “H&M” with posters of Anna Nicole Smith caused several car accidents in major European cities in 1994.
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TIL that Sweden has an underwater sign of an animated, LED gay sailor to deter Russian submarines from entering Sweden’s waters.
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TIL citizens in Estonia are given an ID card that includes a public/private key pair allowing users to cryptographically sign digital documents
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TIL that the Salem Witch Trials could have been just a really bad LSD trip as the rye bread they were eating was contaminated by a fungus called ergot which caused the consumer to spasm or hallucinate, leading people to blame witchcraft.
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TIL It took the steam engine to make the horse popular and affordable. As rail, canals, ferries, and ports brought more and more goods across continents and oceans, horse populations increased exponentially to collect and distribute all those goods, becoming "the backbone of 19th century life".