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TIL that according to the UN, babies born mid-flight are citizens of the country where the plane is registered.

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Ol8R TIL that at the 2012 International Shooting Grand Prix gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko of Kazakhstan had to listen to the entire parody of O’ Kazakhstan from Borat. The incident resulted from the wrong song being downloaded from YouTube at the last minute. Senior officials of Kazakhstan were furious
grjML TIL that phosphorus was the first new element to be discovered since ancient times. In 1669, a German alchemist tried boiling and condensing urine in order to make the fabled philosopher’s stone. Instead, he discovered a substance that glowed in the dark and named it “phosphorus mirabilis.”
m61y TIL that King Louis XI was known as “The Universal Spider”, as his taste for intrigue and intense diplomatic activity led his enemies to accuse him of spinning intricate webs of plots and conspiracies.
DL6j TIL that in 2014, Victoria was the 80th most popular girls name in the UK.
41DJ TIL: A study by the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine using a randomized double-blind trial with sensory evaluation using discrimination testing found that freezing raw fish did not ruin sushi’s taste.