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TIL An old Heinz QR code on a ketchup bottle linked to a German hardcore porn site. A German man who scanned the code thinking it would go to a design you own label page, got an apology from Heinz, and offer of a free year’s subscription from the porn site.

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oRkm8 TIL of Agongointo-Zoungoudo. Rediscovered in 1998 in Benin, West Africa - this town of approx 50 bunkers was built 32 feet below ground level in the late 16th Century. King Dakodonou is thought to have commissioned the town to protect his kingdom in the event of an attack.
8aPXa TIL that in 1984 a BBC radio DJ stopped a song mid-way, once he realised that the lyrics were pro gay. The rest of the BBC followed suit. Two weeks later, "Relax" by Frankie goes to Hollywood reached No.1.
v0Rx TIL while not strictly legal, starting in the 1690s, British husbands used to sell their wives to end bad marriages. It was usually an auction announced by newspaper ad, to which the wife was led by a rope around her neck. Often the buyer was pre-arranged & the sale was a form of symbolic separation
rxre TIL in order to reduce the number of squirrelpox-carrying gray squirrels, Prince Charles has backed a plan to feed the squirrels oral contraceptives hidden in Nutella.
R7nKQ TIL In 1989 a naked man climbed a flagpole at a McDonald's in Anchorage, Alaska. He stretched his arms out and nosedived onto the pavement. There were no drugs in his system, and he has never been identified.