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TIL Margaret Thatcher performed a short live sketch with "Yes Minister" actors portraying their characters Jim Hacker and Humphrey during an award ceremony, and Creator Jonathan Lynn thanked Thatcher "for taking her rightful place in the field of situation comedy."

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16JQP TIL that Poinsettias come from Mexico. The Aztecs call them (Nahuatl language) cuetlaxochitl ̶ xochitl. The name Poinsettia, is in honour of Joel Roberts Poinsett, a US envoy in Mexico City who introduced the plant to the US and Europe.
9YObm TIL of Stella Nyanzi, a foe of Ugandan President Museveni. She posted she wished Mr. Museveni had burned up in the "acidic pus" of his mother's vagina. She was jailed for cyberharassment and bared her breasts at her sentencing, "I intended to annoy Yoweri Museveni. We are tired of his dictatorship."
R01Q TIL British Airways edited out the cameo of rival Richard Branson and obscured the tail-fin of one of Branson’s Virgin Atlantic planes, in the in-flight version of the James Bond flick Casino Royale.
yQ0Zp TIL An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device until she was able to have a heart transplant. She essentially lived for 118 days without a heart, with her circulation supported only by the two blood pumps.
8aWMV TIL Gary Larson apologized for the Far Side strip Hell's Video Store; it has nothing but copies of Ishtar. After seeing Ishtar he said "There are so many cartoons for which I should probably write an apology, but this is the only one which compels me to do so."