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TIL the Queen is above the law and cannot be charged civilly or criminally.

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16Bg4 TIL of handkerchief color codes, used as a way to non-verbally express sexual activities and fetishes. Red is for fisting.
gd14 TIL Marco Polo did not introduce Italy to pasta via China. Durum wheat, and thus pasta as it is known today, was introduced by Arabs from Libya, during their conquest of Sicily in the 7th century, predating Marco Polo’s travels to China by about six centuries
XPkE TIL according to a lawsuit filed earlier this year against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more
wJwE TIL a US Navy POW blinked the word ‘torture’ in morse code during a forced TV interview in North Vietnam to signal his conditions to the Office of Naval Intelligence
v17nr TIL that the color “isabelline,” a yellowish-white, may have been named after Isabella I of Castile swore not to change her shift until the siege of Granada was over, expecting a quick victory; the siege took 8 months