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TIL that a spoonful of sugar stops hiccups.

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Knl4 TIL of the lady named Concepcion Picciotto who protested in front of the White House for 35 years, the longest continuous act of political protest in the United States.
16DPd TIL that fixing a software bug made the bug worse. While fixing a flaw in the Atari BASIC language that causes the computer to freeze, the programmer saw the same code elsewhere, and changed that too. Doing so reintroduced the same problem he had fixed, but now the lock up occurs much more often.
DQXXD TIL As a British colony in the 1870s, Prince Edward Island was first promoted as a place to get away from the high-pressured society of North America. Many Americans saw Canada as a foreign land that resembled the old country of England but without the bustle
v1VgK TIL eating the liver of a polar animal (especially polar bears) will kill you due to a vitamine A overdose.
Er6X TIL-King Otto of Bavaria – who ‘ruled’ from 1886 to 1913, and was quite mad – exercised his right to shoot one peasant every day. Luckily for Bavaria’s peasants, his attendants gave him pistols loaded with blanks and dressed up as peasants, playing dead whenever he ‘shot’ them.