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TIL: British fast success story in short

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PYBMe TIL Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient Greece due to having antifungal and antiseptic properties.
VQMQ TIL “Bottled water companies gain high profits by drawing water from public water sources, putting it in plastic containers, and reselling it at 2,900 times the price of regular tap.”
9BOr TIL Ataturk criticized Islam saying “It is no good for modern, progressive state. God’s revelation! There is no God! These are only the chains by which the priests and bad rulers bound the people down. A ruler who needs religion is a weaklings. No weaklings should rule!”
VkOp TIL that when two British sailors saw the ancient Roman column ‘Pompey’s Pillar’ in 1803, they climbed it, flew a Union Jack, affixed a weather vane to the top, ate steaks and toasted King George III.
Vx00 TIL The U.S provides GPS service world wide for free, while U.S tax payers pay $2 million dollars a day to keep it operating.