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TIL Panarin’s Map was a prediction by a Russian professor that the United States would break up into four separate republics due to internal strain and external pressure. (Map #11)

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a8V5A TIL about the British Post Office scandal in which hundreds of sub postmasters (people who run a post office in the UK) were criminally prosecuted and some put in jail on the charges of serious theft/fraud - when actually, it was a fault in the accounting software and the BPO tried to cover it up.
0GEv TIL that since 1967 the United Kingdom Home Office only counts a homicide if the murder ends with a conviction making it nearly impossible to compare homicides rates between the UK and other developed countries.
np7Y TIL Funny men not only have more sex but give their partners more & stronger orgasms
1a56X TIL cat burglars across Europe have been know to pump anaesthetic gas into victims residences via the AC unit.
GxG4 TIL Disney considered creating a park called “Shadowland” or “Dark Kingdom” dedicated to villains.