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TIL Brittain used to be called Albion

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4XPmN TIL that ‘spontaneous human combustion’ has been recorded to have happened several times in history.
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m11XM TIL our brain stems, inherited from amphibian ancestors, still spurt out odd signals producing hiccups that are essentially the same phenomenon as gill breathing.
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