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TIL that the Mayflower Pub in London is the only Pub licensed to sell US stamps due to it’s historical connection to the original Mayflower ship that carried the Pilgrim Fathers.

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GAekN TIL: That The Web of Life offers a critique on concepts like nature, wilderness, Gaia, and our everyday environments, challenging how we perceive the world around us.
9KK7 TIL Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was one of the first people to propose creating a Panama Canal
4Nj6 TIL of Anatoliy Golitsyn a KGB agent who defected to the US in 1961. He claimed the Soviets planned a long term deception strategy to lull the West into a false sense of security by appearing to break apart predicting the fall of the Berlin Wall, formation of the EU and financial problems in the US.
wLdy8 TIL Venus' day is longer than its year and rotates backwards.
ZwZY TIL that the Nobel prize is sometimes called No-Bell prize because Joycelyn Bell Burnell did not share in the 1974 Nobel Prize for the first observation of radio pulsars, despite the fact that she was the one who had actually observed them.