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TIL In the UK, the Home Secretary was required to attend Royal Births, to verify an heir to the throne was legitimately born.

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7dPr TIL that technically a diamond will not last forever; given enough time, a diamond will decay into graphite
M1Na TIL during the WWII, Hamburgers were renamed “Liberty Steaks” in order to avoid the German-sounding name for a brief period of time.
X0JEE TIL flies can walk upside down, see in all directions, and taste with their feet. They also have a complex social life and communicate with each other through sounds and smells.
6EM0X TIL that payday loans can charge over 600% interest! I can’t believe this is legal and that anyone could vote against making it illegal.
Kvo4 TIL Law professor Roger Fisher suggested that nuclear launch codes be implanted in a volunteer’s heart. The president would be required to personally take the life of an innocent person before taking the lives of hundreds of millions.