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TIL about the Whisky War, when Canada and Denmark took turns planting a flag & bottles of booze on an island that was disputed territory.

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awEA TIL that people seeing the movie version of “Clue” in theaters didn’t know which of the three endings they were going to see when they went into the movie. Eventually, theaters began advertising which ending the movie would have so people could see the endings they hadn’t already seen.
8a6nP TIL there is no constitutional requirement for a U.S. State to hold presidential elections. A State legislature can theoretically just handpick its presidential electors.
4XQl5 TIL about a psychological phenomenon known as psychic numbing, the idea that “the more people die, the less we care”. We not only become numb to the significance of increasing numbers, but our compassion can actually fade as numbers increase.
8aYla TIL “Vermont Curry” is famous in Japan due to the diet craze of drinking apple cider vinegar and honey
vPGgD TIL that Denmark has a 7-point grading system in schools where the grades are 12, 10, 7, 4, 02, 00 and -3