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TIL in the UK, the 5 archbishops and 21 most senior bishops of the Church of England are automatically granted 26 seats at the House of Lords (UK's Senate), with full voting powers. According to Humanists UK, the only other country to give clerics this kind of power is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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KO7Xw TIL the United States made Laos the most-bombed country per capita in the world, dropping more than two million tons of ordnance (an average of one ton per citizen) on Laos during 580,000 bombing missions between 1964 and 1973.
Lkdxr TIL about the Holodomor (death inflicted by starvation) which refers to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians during 1932-1933 caused by soviet policies. Private farms were destroyed and were replaced by collectivized farms. We remember this event on the fourth Saturday of every November.
OoMv4 TIL that Poo-phoria occurs when your bowel movement stimulates the vagus nerve, which descends from the brain stem to the colon. It takes a particularly "large mass of stool" to trigger poo-phoria and its vagal-nerve-induced feelings of exhilaration, intense relaxation, and goose bumps.
Vx48 TIL when dogs get the “Zoomies”, it’s known as Frenetic Random Activity Periods, or FRAPS, which is pent up energy.
W7BZ8 TIL that a former member of the band Thompson Twins designed a billboard featuring a young woman with four breasts hooked up to a milking machine. Although controversial, the billboard won several international art awards. It was intended to criticize the idea of splicing human genes into cows.