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TIL Squatting is legal in Belgium

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x6oM5 TIL Vichy Pastilles were a digestive aid turned confectionery invented in 1825. The Vichy Regime of WW2 used the sweets as propaganda and did not ration them, unlike other foodstuffs. The name of the sweets is known to make some French citizens uneasy.
6EQNJ TIL Panthers are not actually an individual animal they are the family of all large cats. Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars etc. A black panther for example is any of these large cats with black fur
LknZ9 TIL that the "All persons fictitious" disclaimer that appears in the end credits of films and TV shows is a result of a libel case brought against MGM that had produced a film suggesting that a Russian princess had been seduced by Rasputin
Ry6j TIL: Katrin Himmler, grandniece of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, has NOT refused to have children to end her great-uncle’s bloodline. She believes the idea of good or evil being passed through bloodlines is itself a reflection of Nazi ideology.
7kvr TIL there is an untreatable lung disease that can be caused by the butter flavouring on popcorn