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TIL Smarties candy was originally not allowed to be white for fear that children would associate medicinal tablets with Smarties.

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N7l5P TIL that the British colony of New South Wales originally included what is now New Zealand, the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory, and Norfolk Island
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oMrK TIL that in 1849, Henry “Box” Brown, a 33 year-old slave born in slavery, mailed himself to freedom in a 3'x2'x2'8" (91x61x81cm) wooden crate. To get a day off, he burned his hand to the bone with sulfuric acid. Brown paid 86$ to be shipped from Richmond, Virginia to Philadelphia in 27 hours.
GY4GQ TIL of the "Gimli Glider", Air Canada Flight 143, a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. Successfully landed with 0 casualties.
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