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TIL alcohol is prohibited in the British Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.

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9DxX TIL Vending machines kill more people per year than sharks. Vending machines kill an average of 13 people a year, sharks 5.
9j8B TIL that scientists have discovered a ‘lake’ in the Gulf of Mexico with water five times as salty that is highly toxic. For animals (and people) who swim into it, these toxic concentrations can be deadly. Only bacterial life, tube worms, and shrimp can survive
woVeo TIL that the term 'making love' meant flirtation or verbal protestation of love and devotion since its inception in the 1590s up to the early 1900s
wLggY TIL Elephants are among the very few land mammals apart from humans to mourn the dead among them and visit their graves.
OdoR TIL that in 1942 a Finnish sound engineer secretly recorded 11 minutes of a conversation between Adolf Hitler and Finnish Defence Chief Gustaf Mannerheim. It is the only known recording of Adolf Hitler’s normal unaltered speaking voice.