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TIL former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once called poverty “a personality defect”

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PYd9n TIL about the Expert Wizard Amendment, which was passed but never implemented.
7rXpb TIL that Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh are both descendants of Queen Victoria. This would make them 3rd cousins.
ga47 TIL there is a lamp, powered solely by gravity; that’s only $5
LGmQ TIL Ed Smith created a fake student called George Burdell when Georgia Tech sent him two enrolment forms by mistake. He signed Burdell up for all his classes and did all his work twice with minor changes so teachers wouldn’t catch him. The school awarded Burdell a bachelor’s and a master’s degree.
5Y4Gk TIL of Thomas De Quincy, a 19th century opium addict whose memoir is responsible for the invention of 159 common words including earth-shattering, interconnection, incubator, entourage, subconscious and post-natal. He also popularised the term 'pipe dream'.