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TIL that Reporters without Borders considers the UK an “enemy of the internet”

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0wVRp TIL Norway had the biggest merchant fleet during WW2 with over 1000 ships, and shipped 40% of the fuel to the allies during WW2. The British PM Winston Churchill and the US President Franklin Roosevelt stated that “Nortraship is worth more for the Allied cause than a million soldiers on the ground”
ybWJ TIL Ger Frits, a man from Amsterdam has organised the funerals of the 20 or so people who die completely alone each year. He places flowers on the coffin and accompanies it on its last journey. A poem is also written for the dead person and read at their funeral
NWe1 TIL the members of The British Royal Family aren’t allowed to play Monopoly because of how vicious the competition gets.
1MGX TIL that 50 Years Ago, NASA astronauts smuggled a corned beef sandwich into space on a mission to test newly invented space food. Congress was so upset it launched an investigation.
5N8D TIL It is estimated that more people died from choosing to drive because of the fear of 9/11 than people died in 9/11.