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TIL you don’t need to do anything special to legally change your last name in the UK. You just write on a piece of paper what your previous name was, what you want your new name to be, and get it signed by two people. Works for passports and everything.

QNgpL TIL if a Catholic man needs a semen sample to diagnose infertility, he's supposed to do so by recovering it from a non-lubricated, perforated condom after normal intercourse
loyw5 TIL during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese military had a sophisticated air force and anti-air defense system which destroyed 10,000 US aircraft (including 3,744 planes and 5,607 helicopters) and 1,018 South Vietnamese aircraft. The North Vietnamese only lost 170 aircraft.
ovBW TIL Stephen King Believed his popularity to be an accident, So King wrote under a pen name “Richard Bachman”. The books sold equally well, and King was outed. Happy birthday Stephen King!
eE0g TIL the last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand died in 1990. “In my opinion the assassination turned out well, considering who they gave the job to. In any event, it wasn’t our intention to cause a world war.”
gMNlX TIL René Descartes was serving as a mercenary in 1619 when one night, he shut himself in a room to escape the cold. He had 3 visions which he believed to be a new divine philosophy. He likely had an episode of exploding head syndrome. Upon exiting, he had formulated analytical geometry.