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TIL As a young boy being educated in Germany prince Philip always laughed at people performing the Nazi salute, as at his school this hand signal meant you needed to pee.

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VEgZ TIL that the coffee taster for Costa coffee has his tongue insured for £10m
YpRPB TIL if you fail your driving test in Switzerland more than 3 times you must take a psychological exam before being allowed to retake it.
X0EmE TIL Napoleon’s military tactics are still utilized by armies, and studied by students in academies around the world 200 years later.
WX6o TIL that the CIA suspected the KGB of stealing pipeline software, so they allegedly created a “logic bomb” which resulted in the explosion of a Russian natural gas pipeline equal to 3 kilotons of TNT.
8vkb TIL the package that Tom Hanks did not open in “Castaway” contained “a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone” according to Robert Zemeckis