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

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epypE TIL that people with normal color vision might actually be seeing the same colors differently
b9yka TIL Ryan Newman lead a campaign that may have just saved his own life. Newman crashed badly at the Daytona 500 back in 2003 prompting him to push for a reinforced bar across the windshield. In 2009 it became a regulation in NASCAR commonly referred to as the “Newman bar”.
6el TIL that in 2007 Checkers was “solved”. That is, given perfect play, the win/lose/draw result for every possible game is already known.
b9xR7 TIL olive oil adulteration is the #1 source of agricultural fraud in the EU.
pyep TIL that Myanmar changed from driving on the left to the right, on the advice of a wizard. In 1970.