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TIL having no friends can be just as deadly as smoking.

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v15Z8 TIL of Godiva, who wanted lower taxes. To convince her husband the Earl, she rode her horse naked through the streets. The public was ordered to close their shutters. Tom decided to look and was struck blind. This produced the term "Peeping Tom" as well as the name of the chocolate company Godiva.
Mxa8 TIL that according to the Democracy Index (created by a business within the Economist Group), only 25 countries are full democracies. 53 are flawed democracies, 36 are hybrids and 53 are authoritarian.
O9gL TIL that the concept of the “rap battle” has existed since the 5th century, where poets would engage in “flyting,” a spoken word event where poets would insult one another in verse. The Norse god Loki is noted as having insulted other gods in verse.
QNkQk TIL: The famous piano coda on Layla by Derek & The Dominos was plagiarized
l75JK TIL that a museum in a tiny Western Canadian town has one of only 17 remaining Avro Lancaster aircraft in the world, and its Lancaster is one of only 4 in the world which can taxi under its own power