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TIL a SIGNIFICANT portion of Chumbawamba’s discography is sociopolitical folk music

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g4Kb TIL that the reason Sir Christopher Lee does not speak in the 1966 film Dracula: Prince of Darkness is because he thought the lines for Dracula were so appalling that he refused to say them
WknmY TIL of the "national bathtub", a mass execution during the French Revolution when thousands of suspected royalists were drowned in the river Loire. At first, the perpetrators carried the drownings at night to avoid suspicion, but the dozen of floating bodies in the following days gave them away.
nWBpb TIL messenger pigeons only fly home to where they were born and pampered. To keep them loyal, they were isolated in cages while traveling. Releasing them with a message meant they'd rush back to their luxury life. They acted as a speedy, one-way messaging service.
pygG TIL In 2008, melamine added to milk in China caused kidney stones in thousands of Chinese children. To show his confidence in Chinese dairy products, Peter Mandelson MP drank a glass of Chinese yoghurt in front of reporters. The following week, he was hospitalised for a kidney stone.
Bg40D TIL The headquarters and main Visitor Center at Rocky Mountain National Park (Part of the US National Park Service) was designed by Taliesin Associated Architects; Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural firm.