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TIL it is illegal in Australia for a minor to purchase plastic knives

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WGRY TIL Usain Bolt ate 100 Chicken McNuggets a day for 10 days before the Beijing Olympics and eventually winning 3 gold medals.
PYVXg TIL The largest concentration of Indian restaurants outside the Indian Subcontinent is in Manchester, England on Wilmslow Road which is nicknamed “Curry Mile”
b6gxj TIL BBC hoaxed audience with a fake spaghetti tree video on April Fool's Day in 1957
bnjj TIL The Empire of Japan had proposed a “Racial Equality” bill in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, but was rejected by other countries.
Z84Q TIL that in 1907 Kellogg’s promoted their cornflakes with something called the Wink Day campaign. Women we’re encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” , what they got was a free box of cereal.