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TIL British Members of Parliament are not allowed to resign, so they have to be appointed to a fictitious job “Steward of Northstead” which disqualifies them from being an MP

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R5lmQ TIL: The U.S. intelligence community actively monitored for decades the diplomatic and military communications of numerous Latin American nations through encryption machines supplied by a Swiss company that was secretly owned by the CIA.
rNJE4 TIL that Cuba has a state-run hip-hop label: La Fabri-k
MZdV TIL at least seven peaks in Utah are called ‘Mollies Nipple’ - and at least some of those names are attributed to John Kitchen, a pioneer who named them to commemorate a nipple of his wife.
XEdN6 TIL about Hartmann a philosopher who believed that as intelligent beings, we are obligated to find a way to eliminate suffering, permanently and universally. He believed that it is up to humanity to “annihilate” the universe. It is our duty, he wrote, to “cause the whole kosmos to disappear”
d8jg8 TIL 90% of Earth's population lives in the northern hemisphere