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TIL that vultures have stomach acid 10x stronger than ours to they don’t get food poisoning.

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yB5a TIL that every Icelanders will receive a payout of 215 euro for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki. Iceland, being the only European nation to fully recover fully from the 2008 crisis, has recently jailed its 26th banker for causing the financial chaos.
9Y7jr TIL of William Chester Minor; one of the largest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary who murdered a man at point-blank and was "not guilty by reason of insanity". He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent the next 38 years in a psychiatric hospital up until he died at age 85.
b99oj TIL, When kidnapped by Cilician pirates, Julius Caesar was insulted at the low ransom demand and, after being set free, captured and crucified the pirates.
l77NB TIL that the hit song "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood is specifically about homoerotic anal sex.
4kerw TIL of Law Lords. Formally known as Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, they were members of the House of Lords acting as judges for the chamber's judicial functions as it was the UK's court of last resort for over 200 years, until the creation of the UK Supreme Court in 2009.