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TIL that in the early 1800s the British spent many hundred of thousands of pounds bribing countries to stop the slave trade

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p8Xae TIL Clark Gable went to the hospital and was diagnosed to having suffered from a heart attack. He was improving but had a second heart attack that night from an infection in his heart and medical staff did not perform CPR for fear that it would rupture his heart and a defibrillator was not available
BgmJW TIL Lobsters urinate from glands located beneath their eyes.
7ZvX TIL Pizza boxes, or any cardboard or paper with grease soaked into it, aren’t usually recycled.
rRd0e TIL that Queen Victoria is credited with spreading the tradition of brides wearing white dresses to their weddings. After her wedding to Albert in 1840, the colour white became a status symbol of wealth and power, and others quickly followed her example.
1Mlr TIL nuclear energy is the safest energy source in terms of human deaths - even safer than wind and solar.