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TIL that in the UK, the opposition is formally called “Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition”

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Yp0Gd TIL that Ajax, the brand of cleaning products, got its name from the hero Ajax in Greek mythology, which is arguably “stronger than Greece”. The slogan of Ajax, the brand, is “Stronger than grease!”
Z8DQa TIL during the Great Depression, the U.S. deported between 400,000 to 2,000,000 people of Mexican heritage. Approximately sixty percent of them were born in the U.S.
odeR TIL in the 1800s it was common practice for museums to fix sculptures that had broken-off noses by creating & attaching a plaster replica. Today, Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum removed over 100 plaster noses, to give their sculptures a more pure look, & put them on display as a Nasothek.
xVY77 TIL Urine was so important to the textile industry of 16th century England that casks of it–an estimated amount equivalent to the urine stream of 1000 people for an entire year–were shipped from across the country to Yorkshire
QNXAk TIL that in 2022 SpaceX's Falcon family rockets flew 62 times, accounting for over 3/4ths of American orbital launches(87) and nearly 1/3rd of global launches(187)