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TIL the British tabloid The Sun heavily criticized Prime Minister Gordon Brown for misspelling the name of a deceased soldier in a letter of condolence to his mother. Brown apologized, and The Sun soon had to post an apology of its own for similarly misspelling the soldier’s name.

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D15Og TIL that there is a collection of hundreds of preserved diseased brains along with photographs of patients in the sub-basement of Yale Medical School that is free and open to the public. The collection was started by the first neurosurgeon to successfully remove a brain tumor - Dr. Harvey Cushing.
bQ7j TIL that the Bible specifically forbids Christians from filing civil lawsuits against one another, requiring that they pursue arbitration with a Christian authority.
OGkJ4 TIL that Pink Floyd’s The Wall is designed as an endless loop. The final track, “Outside the Wall,” ends with “Isn’t this where...”, and the album starts with “... we came in?” continuing the last song’s melody, highlighting the cyclical theme of Water’s concept.
kJgb4 TIL that according to a 2009 Debenhams' survey, straight men only buy their own underwear between ages 19-23 when they're most likely to be single and actively dating, otherwise their mom or their wife/partner buys it for them.
69NXm TIL the seemingly out of place lyric in Paul Simon's 'Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes' about 'she makes the sign of the teaspoon, he makes the sign of the wave' is actually a reference to South African taxi hand signals, indicating going to a rich district and a poor district, respectively.