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TIL: Today I learned that the new British citizenship test demands knowledge of Monty Python and the Beatles

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b6Mvj TIL that for decades, radiotherapy patients had reported phenomena such as "flashes of bright or blue light" when receiving radiation for brain cancer. This was confirmed to be Cherenkov light being generated in the fluids of the eye by researchers in 2019.
K4E TIL a British army doctor was the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong expeditionary force which was massacred by Afghans in Kabul.
m1OgM TIL That Mongolians have by far the most testosterone among nations
nexB7 TIL of Europe's only legal private army, the Atholl Highlanders, they're not part of the British Army and instead under the command of the Duke of Atholl, the head of Clan Murray
b95PE TIL hippos can't actually swim. They run across the bottom of bodies of water and hop up when they need to get air.