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

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nWrbo TIL that there are companies in the U.S. that will fly you in a helicopter so you can hunt feral hogs from the sky using belt-fed automatic machine guns.
epxm4 TIL that the song Do Re Mi from The Sound of Music is in the key of B flat major, not C major, and that Do doesn’t necessarily mean C.
xVnvo TIL Paula Deen (of deep-fried cheesecake and doughnut hamburger fame) kept her diabetes diagnosis secret for 3 years. She also announced she took a sponsorship from a diabetes drug company the day she revealed her condition.
y66a TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.
kJYR1 TIL Winston Churchill opposed the American use of napalm during the Korean war but still allowed Americans to publish claims of British support for American napalm attacks.