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TIL that contemporary britons seem to have forgotten all about "Splendid Isolation"

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D1Z8Y TIL about NHL Rule 31.11 which says if the officials cannot make it to a game and no suitable substitute can be found the players need to referee the game themselves, this rule has been enforced 1 time on January 15 1983, where only 1 of the 3 officials could make it due to a snowstorm.
d8a5B TIL that movie theater popcorn costs 1275% more than it is worth
epmDn TIL: Winston Churchill wrote an estimated eight to ten million words in more than forty books, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, and at least two film scripts. In 1953, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
9orG TIL Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets because Insects try to eat the tarantulas eggs, so the frog eats the insects while the tarantula protects the frog from predators.
b6Mjj TIL After Imperial China was overthrown in 1911, the Qing court sent an envoy, Tang Shaoyi, to negotiate peace with the Republic of China. Tang visited Sun Yat-sen in the Presidential Palace and was so moved that he switched sides and became the first Premier of the National Republic