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TIL That If You Scaled The Solar System Down To 1 Millimeter, The Nearest Other Star Would Be About 23 Feet Away

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Mebj8 TIL that Ofcom (the regulator for TV, radio etc in the UK) keeps a list of swearwords ranked into categories of offensiveness. It include words like minger (mild), bollocks (medium), beef curtains (strong), and c*nt (strongest).
Xw6P TIL American soldiers and Boy Scouts regularly burn the US Flag, as the most dignified way to dispose of it when the flag has been damaged/become unfit to represent the United States.
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