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TIL that Westminster Palace, the home of both Chambers of British Parliament is home to no less than 30 bars that are subsidized by the taxpayers

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N7YgQ TIL Mechaniscburg in Pennsylvania is a town named for a settlement of mechanics who made and repaired Conestoga wagons in the early 19th century.
y7nX TIL modern science can turn other elements into gold (in microscopic amounts)
e0kx4 TIL that in 1997 the largest known viking ship 'Roskilde 6' was discovered buried beneath the Roskilde Viking museum during the construction of an extension.
4ad5 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the 1968 Baltimore riots: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re so surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”
Lk8nP TIL: for the Platypus there is no universally agreed plural term in English. Platypodes conforms with the greek origin word platupous meaning "flat footed", while Platypi, Platypusses, or Platypus for both singular & plural, are also used.