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TIL that airlines don’t pay tax on fuel
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TIL a gladiator named Asteropaeus fought 107 times and survived to retire
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TIL that Rush Limbaugh was detained for prescription fraud when returning to the US with a bottle of Viagra that wasn’t in his name
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TIL of the 5 known assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth II, the one that came closest to succeeding was attempted by a 17-year-old New Zealander, who shot at her with a .22 calibre rifle, but missed so badly that nobody even realised shots were fired.
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TIL Italy and the EU border coastal and border guard agency, Frontex, illegally funded and assisted the Libyan coast guard to capture Libyans fleeing for refuge.
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TIL that Pangaea is only the most recent super-continent, and there have been at least 6 similar geological events termed “Wilson Cycles”