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TIL that when Michael Foot was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee, The Times reportedly announced the news with the headline “Foot Heads Arms Body.”

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yQnna TIL in the 1920s, Jordanian poet Mustafa Wahbi Tal was once arrested for displaying Bolshevik symbols, , becoming inebriated in a public bar and publicly reciting a poem that insulted the Emir, the Prime Minister, and the law
0n9R TIL of the condition called “Jogger’s Nipple” where your nipples can bleed during a prolonged period of exercise
M4wb TIL The “Don’t tase me, bro” kid TRADEMARKED “don’t tase me, bro.”
Y7KnZ TIL that even though Winston Churchill's mother was a United States citizen, Churchill could not claim US citizenship because before 1934 you could not claim citizenship through your mother.
5ROQ TIL that during WWII, the Gestapo’s most wanted person was New Zealand born Allied agent Nancy Wake. Among her numerous exploits, she killed an SS soldier with her bare hands, to prevent him from raising the alarm during an undercover raid.