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TIL that there was once a breed of dog called a "turnspit dog" that was bred to run on a wheel, to turn meat cooking over a fire.

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eXvE TIL that during her adult life, Queen Victoria was estimated to have written 2,500 words a day.
j6xa TIL Turkey has the highest age of consent in Europe at age 18 while Spain has the lowest at 13.
lbj5 TIL that sanitation workers in Karachi, Pakistan are often completely submerged in raw sewage as they work, using their bare hands and feet to move sludge
e06OD TIL that when Queen performed for the first time in Australia, at the Sunbury Pop Festival in 1974, they were continuously booed by the crowd, they went on to finish their set with Freddie Mercury yelling to the crowd "When we come back to Australia, Queen will be the biggest band in the world!"
joep TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch doesn’t like the term ‘Cumberbitches’. He said: “I won’t allow you to be my bitches. I think it sets feminism back so many notches. You are… Cumberpeople.”