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TIL the blind get a 50% discount on TV licenses in the UK

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D1kRP TIL Wu-tangs C.R.E.A.M. is “cash RULES...” not “cash MOVES...”. Which lead to my understanding of the song’s name (abbreviation) C.R.E.A.M.
X0eXQ TIL that there’s a medical procedure called “Fecal Transplant” that literally consists in collecting feces, also called stool or poop, from a healthy donor and introduce them into a patient’s gastrointestinal tract. The procedure can control an infection called Clostridium difficile.
kxkE TIL “99 Problems” was originally an Ice-T song from his album Home Invasion, released in 1993.
DQnAY TIL: Ancient Egyptians were the first to take body shaving seriously
OoZv1 TIL that the first proposal for space travel in English history was made by Oliver Cromwell’s brother-in-law in the 17th century, who thought that we just needed to fly 20 miles above the Earth to be released from its magnetism and sail to other planets to trade with the inhabitants.