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TIL that pure Gold will never rust or tranish because it dosn't react to Oxygen.

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nWl5W TIL trash bags were only invented in 1950, so there are plenty of people alive who predate them, and who may have grown up without them.
R5ao8 TIL the province of Quebec never officially approved a series of amendements made to the Canadian Constitution in 1982. Efforts by the Canadian government to secure their approval in 1987 and 1992 both failed. The Supreme Court ruled that Quebec's formal approval was not necessary.
7bZp TIL Ivar the Boneless killed a rival Viking leader by snapping his ribs at his spine and pulling them out so they resembled wings, then wrenching the victim’s lungs out through the gaping cavity in his back. This particular method of execution became known as the Blood Eagle.
XER1D TIL that in 2012, a uk couple jokingly invited Queen Elizabeth II to their wedding. She stopped by and said hello
GZR5 TIL after the courtesan Leæna (whose name means lioness) refused to reveal the name of the conspirators that tried to kill the Athenian tyrant Hippias under torture, the Athenians erected a tongueless lioness statue in her memory and placed lionesses next to statues of Aphrodite.