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TIL 70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army

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N78Ae TIL that water bottles can be an effective weapon, esp. for assault.
Y1bA TIL In 1973, with the government-wide panic caused by Watergate, the CIA Director ordered all MK-Ultra files destroyed… A cache of some 20,000 documents survived, as they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building and were discovered following a FOIA request in 1977.
oRPdW TIL an African grey parrot named "Nigel" who spoke with a British accent, went missing from his California home. He was returned 4 years later speaking Spanish
b9Bo7 TIL that when Niels Bohr escaped from Denmark, he was smuggled out in the bomb bay of a Mosquito bomber. Because he didn't wear his helmet, he didn't hear the pilot instructing him to put on his mask, causing him to pass out from oxygen starvation for most of the flight.
logVG TIL that zucchinis and pumpkins are actually members of the same species, and the word "zucchini", in fact, comes from the Italian word for "pumpkin".