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TIL a UK customs officer tried to get rid of his wife by waiting until she had gone abroad - and then entering her name into the “Do-Not-Fly List”. She was stranded abroad for 3 years.

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LvVr TIL that babies put anything/everything into their mouths because it’s where their most-developed nerve endings are.
ZYyD TIL that during the Falklands War, British soldier Philip Williams was knocked unconscious by an explosion. When he awoke the next day he was lost and walked aimlessly for months. He was declared dead before being found 7 weeks after the end of hostilities. He was unaware the conflict had ended.
oB7k8 TIL in 2002, a Coptic monk in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre moved his chair just a bit to get away from the sun. This caused a fistfight between Ethiopian and Coptic monks and eleven people ended up being hospitalised.
E1oJw TIL Martin Luther King Jr was uncompromisingly anti-capitalist and that his speeches before being assassinated increasingly focused on the economic and social issues faced by poor Americans
4X5e6 TIL That Mexican music was very popular in Yugoslavia during the '60s. With young people dressing up in mariachi outfits.