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TIL the UK Royal Family charge the RNLI (lifeboat charity) to launch boats, as the Royal Family own the beach/land

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O757 TIL: Some parts of Glasgow have a lower average life expectancy than that of Iraq
Wk0n9 TIL The Archbishop of New Orleans ruled that Alligator meat is classified as fish, so Catholics can eat it on Fridays during Lent.
JJXv TIL a Japanese Oil Tanker captain fell into a cactus at a Santa Barbra Oil Field, provoking laughter from the local workers. 5 years later he returned in an Imperial Japanese Navy sub and made the first mainland shelling of the US at that oil field.
oBJ4K TIL there’s a stinging plant called the Gympie Gympie that produces a toxin so painful it’s driven humans and animals to suicide. Described as being sprayed with hot acid whilst being electrocuted at the same time. A man was reported to have shot himself after using a leaf as toilet paper.
VM1wD TIL of early French socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) who believed in the future, under his system people would grow tails and live 144 years, as well as there being "anti-lions", which would be friendly and pacifistic.