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TIL "Perfidious Albion" is a pejorative phrase used within the context of international relations diplomacy to refer to alleged acts of diplomatic sleights, duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity by monarchs or governments of the UK in their pursuit of self-interest.

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XEovr TIL there is a species intermediate in size between a wallaby and a kangaroo. They are called wallaroos.
PY7MG TIL after the Suez Canal was completed, species from the Red Sea used it to migrate to the Mediterranean and became invasive. This phenomenon is called the Lessepsian migration, after the builder of the Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps
KOQpJ TIL that memories of music cannot be lost to Alzheimer's and dementia. The part of your brain responsible for ASMR catalogs music, and appears to be a stronghold against Alzheimer's and dementia.
6bXl TIL in the fiscal year of 2014, the DEA spent an average of $4.20 per marijuana plant they uprooted.
PYKw TIL That a gas cloud will get too close to the Black Hole in the center of our galaxy next year, and we’ll see it ripped apart.