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TIL David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the UK during WW1, didn't support appeasement because he disliked Neville Chamberlain

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970B TIL You Could Fit All the Planets in the Solar System Between the Earth and the Moon.
ADKrx TIL the women who discovered Heath Ledger called Mary Kate Olsen instead of 911 when she discovered the body, and Olsen refused to talk to the cops unless she was granted immunity, despite the cops not accusing her of anything. Her lawyer denied that she had anything to do with the drugs found.
X0OMr TIL that 90% of the sage used for smudge sticks and other new-age products is poached and the California white sage plant’s survival is in jeopardy
6EYGJ TIL Czar Nicholas II approved a tunnel across the Bering Strait in 1905 (with a cost estimated at $65 million and $300 million including all the railroads) although the plan was abandoned with the advent of WWI and the Russian Revolution.
jNOnN TIL about a Lithuanian artist who designed a roller coaster whose purpose is to kill people through euphoria obtained by g-forces and appropriately called it "Euthanasia coaster." He got this idea while working at an amusement park.