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oWPK TIL Citizens of the UK must pay a yearly license fee to own TV sets receiving live TV broadcasts at £145.50 for color and £49.00 for black and white.
lA1B TIL that the British Secret Service (James Bond’s employer) really can issue a “license to kill”. It’s called a Class Seven authorization, and must be approved by the MI6 agent’s superiors all the way up to the Foreign Minister.
woAZ7 Today I learned that heavenly bamboo is used as an ornamental plant by cultivators, but it is an incredibly invasive species and very poisonous to birds & mammals.
Gp7N TIL that cetaceans blow bubble rings seemlingly for amusement
gMyy9 TIL that when Fritz Duquesne's farm was torched and mum sent to a concentration camp as part of Lord Kitchener's policy in the Second Boer War, he vowed revenge. 15 years later, during WW1, he infiltrated Kitchener's warship and signalled a German submarine, which sank the boat, killing Kitchener