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TIL In 2010 Feminist Claire Perry unsuccessfully tried to pressure ISPs into automatically blocking pornography, forcing users to “opt-in”. She is the current ‘Porn Advisor’ to David Cameron

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W7xXL TIL certain species of birds have been known to use cigarette butts in their nests as a way to repel mites and other parasites.
OdBa TIL a study found that hot chocolate tastes best when drinking it from an orange cup.
yVkNv TIL Genghis Khan invented biological warfare and flung plague-infested bodies into cities during sieges, and is the reason for the Black Death being introduced to Europe.
lA0N TIL there are 558,000 USA WWII veterans still alive today.
NGpP TIL after the US ambassador to the Sudan was kidnapped in 1973, Nixon said he would not negotiate with terrorists; the ambassador was shot 12 hours later.