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TIL that the British Royal Navy was prohibited from ruling over land and whenever a need for military use of land arose they would commission it as a ship and call call it a "Stone Frigate"

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mxEov TIL Gravity moves at the Speed of Light and is not Instantaneous. If the Sun were to disappear, we would continue our elliptical orbit for an additional 8 minutes and 20 seconds, the same time it would take us to stop seeing the light (according to General Relativity).
NrG6 TIL in 2006 a group of climbers reached the top of Britain’s highest mountain and found a piano
OkeL TIL a 22-year-old woman died after receiving a silicone butt injection in a pay-by-the-hour hotel. The coroner found that the silicone went into her veins and asphyxiated her, and the woman who injected her was charged with manslaughter.
4PYw TIL - There are only two countries in the world where drug companies are permitted to advertise to the public: New Zealand and USA.
wL7jE TIL that Gollum's Acceptance Speech for Best Virtual Performance at the 2003 MTV's won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form