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TIL there is a school in England where they have been wearing the same uniform for 460 years.

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eApD TIL A college student wrote against seat belt laws, saying they are “intrusions on individual liberties” and that he won’t wear one. He died in a car crash, and his 2 passengers survived because they were wearing seat belts.
nWvA7 TIL the official crown of the Prince of Wales was made using a gold-plated ping-pong ball as the central orb
BrljK TIL that in 2017, a Florida man who had written a self-help book about saving a marriage through communication, killed his wife and posted a picture of her dead body on Facebook.
W7VEA TIL Australian magpies one of the cleverest birds on Earth once helped each other to remove tracking devices researchers took 6 months to create and put on them. Within 20 minutes, one helping magpie had found the only weak point and snipped to remove the device.
JYMLk TIL nonchalant, disheveled, nonplussed, disconsolate, and nonsensical are examples of unpaired words: words that appear to be formed by a prefix and an existing word, but aren't. Chalant, heveled, plussed, consolate, and sensical are not recognized as English words.