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TIL that Britain has been in conflicts continuously for 101 years

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a8X9 TIL the music industry tried to sue Limewire for more money than exists in the world
D1Y4j TIL that in 2009, four prison inmates saved a prison guard from another inmate. The heroes were in prison for crimes like assault and armed robbery and saved the guard because he treated them with a lot of respect.
NXXEM TIL some experts believe Stonehenge was designed to line up perfectly with the sunrise on the summer solstice (21st June) as a symbol of fertility. The outer 'male' stone casts a phallic shadow that penetrates the inner stone circle and hits the recumbent ‘female’ altar stone.
x65vo TIL in 1958 a nighttime training exercise resulted in a mid-air collision between an F-86 Sabre and a B-47 Startojet. To save the aircraft, the B-47 crew ditched their nuclear payload to save weight. The undetonated weapon is believed to have sunk near Tybee Island and remains unrecovered today.
0J4M TIL in Yakutsk, Russia, the coldest city on earth, residents often keep their cars running all day to ensure they can get home and they are advised not to wear glasses in fear that they will freeze to the face and rip off skin.