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TIL that Prince Charles charges a wildlife trust one daffodil per year to lease several small islands from him.

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e01vE TIL of "floating armories". Private military companies providing security against Somali pirates will station ships full of weapons in international waters. Other ships pick up and drop off weapons in the middle of the ocean, to avoid illegally bringing weapons into anyone's territorial waters.
bG47 TIL of an Australian man who has donated blood over 1100 times, and saved over two million babies. His blood contains a rare combination of antibodies that is used to treat Rhesus disease.
e0rgn TIL The Song of India is the first Indian restaurant in South East Asia to have ever won a Michelin Star, its Executive Chef Manjunath Mural was destined to be a doctor since his entire family was in the profession and decided to change that when he found his love for cooking.
yQgGX TIL that a dental worker once injected herself with mercury and survived
wnPM TIL that 19 Baboons from Paris Zoo sent to a national park in England were unable to understand English commands but were fully cognitive of French words, forcing their English keepers to learn French.