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TIL only the Queen can eat swans in England.

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exvE TIL The British Museum is older than the United States of America
E1GlP TIL in 1942, as Japanese torpedoes slowly sank the U.S.S. Lexington, then the second-largest aircraft carrier in the Navy’s arsenal, the crew abandoned ship - but not before breaking into the freezer and eating all the ice cream.
QNRRe TIL in September 2011, the state of Texas abolished all special last meal requests for death row inmates.
kO9P4 TIL in 2018 the car loan platform Lending Tree reported that while Tesla buyers only spent 4.6% of income on car payments, the least among all studied brands, the highest payment-to-income ratio brands were Buick and Chrysler, with both having buyers spend 10.9% of their income on car payments.
WklNL TIL that Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and The Wrestler were originally supposed to be one movie about an affair between an obsessed ballet dancer and a burnt out wrestler. He eventually realized it was way too much story and split them, doing The Wrestler about 10 years later