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TIL former UK prime ministers can claim up to £115,000 a year for life.

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b68yZ TIL that in 2000, Robert Mugabe, then president of Zimbabwe, won the 1st prize jackpot in a national lottery organized by a government owned bank.
98XQ TIL that a British officer, wearing a monocle in Egypt during WW1, was confronted on the parade ground by lines of Australians with pennies in their eyes, threw his monocle up in the air, caught it in his eye, then turned to the parade and roared, ‘All right, you bastards, let’s see you do that.’
160rW TIL in the late '70s and early '80s, the Soviets "bugged" IBM Selectric II typewriters in the US Embassy in Moscow so they would report what the Americans were typing by radio. We only found out when a friendly country's embassy told us it had happened to their typewriters.
MDEA TIL Lulu the kangaroo was rescued as a joey and hand-reared by a farmer and his family. When a branch knocked the farmer unconscious, Lulu stayed with him and ‘barked’ until the man’s family came, likely saving his life.
Lanm TIL about the possibility of “Hypertumors”, when cancer tumor gets so big it itself gets cancer