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TIL advocating removal of the monarchy in the UK is officially punishable by life imprisonment.

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x6b65 TIL 75% of the 33,600 schools in the UK contain asbestos at levels high enough for attendees to inhale a few million fibers
g7J8 TIL you have a ‘second brain’ embedded in the wall of your gut which controls digestion and has five times more neurons than a rat’s brain
ADr74 TIL that the FBI has a rapid deployment Art Crime Team consisting of 20 special agents. Since its conception in 2004, it has recovered over 15,000 items valued at over $800,000,000
8rxV TIL to save time for workers constructing the new World Trade Center, a Subway restaurant pod was put on hydraulic legs next to tower cranes so that it could be moved up the building as it was built.
7r6eZ TIL an average sized human has 7x10^18 joules of potential energy. Enough to explode with the energy of 30 large hydrogen bombs