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TIL It’s cheaper to rent in Barcelona and FLY to London everyday than it is to rent in london

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VB69B TIL that in 1914, the wife of the French Prime Minister murdered a newspaper editor to prevent him from disclosing her relationship with him, which had begun while both were still married to their previous partners. She was acquitted because she was deemed to have acted on "uncontrollable impulses".
rRM7w TIL that the phrase “May you live in interesting times” is not a Chinese saying and that there are no Chinese sources credited with ever having used the phrase.
JLNQ TIL In May 1997, Mattel introduced Share a Smile Becky, a doll in a pink wheelchair. A 17-year-old high school student with cerebral palsy pointed out the doll wouldn’t fit in the elevator of Barbie’s Dream House. Mattel announced it would redesign the house in the future to accommodate the doll.
NXw9P TIL that the celebrated Tudor warship Mary Rose - rediscovered in 1982 and now restored as a museum - had a sister ship called Peter Pomegranate whose fate remains unknown
QNyja TIL: The “recto-scope” is a torture method which consists of inserting live rats into a victim's rectum or vagina through a tube.