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TIL that the British royal family owns a stamp collection worth over £100 million. In 1904, The Prince of Wales paid £1,450 for a rare stamp. A courtier asked the prince if he had seen "that some damned fool had paid as much as £1,400 for one stamp". "Yes," George replied. "I was that damned fool!"

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8Vo4 TIL: Rock Against Racism was formed in part as a protest against racist remarks by David Bowie and Eric Clapton. The latter announcing “Britain was in danger of becoming a ‘black colony’. Among other things, Clapton said 'Keep Britain white!’ which was at the time a National Front slogan
Rrxa TIL “Turn the other cheek” actually means that you are demanding equality from an abuser…and not passively accepting assault.
DQ1LV TIL I learned about "Bombturbation", the cratering of the soil surface and mixing of the soil by explosive munitions, usually during warfare or related activities. Some places like Verdun in France (during WW1), were completely and almost irreversibly changed by this
jN07Q TIL that there is a Namibian politician named Adolf Hitler. He won a local election and says he has no plans for world domination
m1EGv TIL that the official residence of the UK Prime Minister, 10 Downing St, originally started out as being numbered 5 Downing St and was not renumbered until 1779.