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TIL that there has been a 'blanket ban' on alchohol consumption at all soccer stadiums in the U.K. since 1985.

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5G1D TIL that the Soviets found that sniper duties fit women well, since good snipers are patient, careful, deliberate, can avoid hand-to-hand combat, and need higher levels of aerobic conditioning than other troops.
MY7B TIL that St. Bibiana is the patron saint of hangovers
0m51 TIL Swaziland’s 1 Lilangeni coin is identical in weight and dimensions to the £1 coin and can be used in vending machines. It’s worth £0.06
D1aDj TIL in 1791, France became the first West European country to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults
XEaDQ TIL of Jane Digby, an English aristocrat who had 4 husbands and many lovers, including King Ludwig of Bavaria and his son King Otto of Greece, a Bohemian nobleman, Austrian statesman and Prince, and a Greek general. She died in Syria, the wife of a Sheikh 20 years her junior