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TIL that the EU visa application rejection is a profitable "business": +100M a year, 90% of it comes from African and Asian countries

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R95a TIL That famous philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau so enjoyed S&M, he used to drop his trousers in the street and charge ass-first towards groups of women in the hopes of being spanked.
j61JX TIL that at the Confederacy’s surrender at Appomattox, a Seneca Indian (General Grant’s secretary), Lieutenant Colonel Ely Parker, wrote the terms of surrender
W7y74 TIL only 5% of residential homes in the UK are thought to have air conditioning and many buildings are designed in a way to keep heat in.
W7v59 TIL the Nile crocodile is estimated to kill hundreds of people each year which is more than all other crocodilian species combined & since a majority of fatal attacks are believed to be predatory in nature, the Nile crocodile can be considered the most prolific predator of humans among wild animals.
R5mV6 TIL in 456 BCE Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, was killed after an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. According to Pliny, Aeschylus had been avoiding a prophecy which foretold that one day a house would fall on him and take his life.