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TIL Monaco is the only place in Europe where credit card points are not redeemable nor can you accumulate hotel points

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JGMV TIL when an American soldier looses his penis as a result of wounds sustained in combat, there are no disability payments, or mental health services after the wound is initially treated.
ZpepD TIL the British monarch Edward VII encouraged Nazis to bomb Britain during WWII, as he believed "a severe bombing would make Britain ready for peace"
VB1Zm TIL while most people only know of Solid, Liquid and Gas there are around 2 dozen other states of matter, including Plasma, Time Crystals, Degenerate Matter, Superfluids, Supersolids, and the Rydberg Polaron - a state where atoms exist within other atoms.
WB6B TIL That The Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed
deN8 TIL some Arctic caterpillars can’t eat enough during summer to sustain transformation so they winter over frozen solid, protected by their blood’s antifreeze properties. It may take 14yrs before they build enough reserve to transform. These are the oldest caterpillars in the world.