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TIL the UK’s military satellite family is called Skynet.

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WAwL TIL Bulgaria has a hotel with an ancient Roman gladiator arena in the lobby. The arena was found during construction, so they incorporated it into the hotel.
YWJv TIL that as a child, the French designer Christian Louboutin, being darker-skinned than the rest of his family, invented his own history of being Egyptian, due to his fascination with Pharaohs. At the age of 50, Louboutin discovered that his biological father was in fact an Egyptian man.
ANOYl TIL: The descendants of Genghis Khan (1162 — 25 August 1227) continued to rule parts of Central Asia for 700 years until the 1920s, when they were conquered by the Bolsheviks and their states became part of the Soviet Union.
m8pp TIL most Dutch parents allow their teens to have “Romantic Sleepovers”; where the know in advance their child is having a boy/girl over to stay the night and have sex, and approve of it.
OkpX TIL a voting system exists that lets you select candidates in order of preference. Votes “roll over” from a losing candidate to the next preferred. This “political average” overcomes flaws of single-ballot voting.