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TIL there is a cruise ship named “The World” where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe

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ADa1B TIL that John Cleese was expelled from Clifton College as a young boy after painting footsteps on the ground to suggest that the school's statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had gotten down from its plinth and gone to the toilet
OmaL TIL Guatemala has more Nobel Prize winners than it does Olympic medalists.
VBOvp TIL while people often use the words ‘sign’ and ‘symptom’ interchangeably, from a Medical perspective a Symptom is something only the sufferer can perceive, like dizziness or pain while a Sign is something objective that a another person can perceive, like a visible rash or elevated temperature.
E17yW TIL that the International Space Station Has Better Internet Than Most of Us After Its Latest Upgrade. With its new connection, the ISS now has a 600 megabit-per-second (Mbps) connection.
0pQp TIL there is a political party in the Israeli parliament dedicated to environmentalism, the rights of Palestinians, dismantling settlements, social democracy, and the rights of minorities.