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TIL husband of the person who translated The Complete Yes Minister into Chinese later became the Prime Minister of China

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VM7G0 TIL Erykah Badu's concert was cancelled in Malaysia in 2012 because it was found that she had applied a temporary tattoo of the word Allah on a part of her body
4KmR TIL that a man lost about 50%-75% of his brain to hydrocephalus (water on the brian) but still led a normal life. They believe the fluid filled so slowly over his life that the brain remapped itself to function despite the loss of mass.
aNDo TIL Newton’s flaming laser sword is a philosophical razor that states anything that cannot be settled by experiment is not worthy of debating.
ejEJ TIL that techniques for cheaply mass-producing truffles have existed since 1808. However, due to a combination of factors, many of these techniques were lost, and despite modern attempts truffle production has never fully recovered.
WZmL TIL of Princess Olga of Kiev who, after being courted by the same tribe that killed her husband, proceeded to bury the tribe’s messengers alive before accepting the proposal and burning the men sent to collect her alive