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TIL the UK has been in a war somewhere every year since 1936.
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TIL the "tail suspension test" is one method researchers use to measure depression in rats. Subjects are hung upside down by their tails and timed to measure how long it takes the rat to stop struggling and accept its fate.
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TIL David Spade inspired Donkey. Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot, who wrote Shrek, said, ‘You know who we patterned the donkey and the ogre off of? As far as their relationship? That was Spade and Farley in Tommy Boy.'
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TIL: Although Fidel Castro was always pictured with cigars, he gave up smoking them in the 80’s and was quoted as saying: “The best thing you can do with a box of cigars give it to your enemy!”
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TIL, there are no battleships remaining in service or in reserve with any navy worldwide.
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TIL the word quarantine derives from the italian word quaranta, meaning forty - because in times of the Black Death ships had to wait 40 Days outside the port to prove they aren’t infested.