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TIL that you legally can’t die in the Palace of Westminster if you’re a commoner. Your death is recorded as having taken place at St Thomas’s Hospital.

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dDyZd TIL that the first Coachella Music Festival was held in 1999. It was inspired by a 1993 Pearl Jam concert. Pearl Jam's lead singer, Eddie Vedder, led the band to boycott venues controlled by Ticketmaster and perform at the Empire Polo Club grounds instead.
awgJ0 TIL between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as POWs. The pilots' translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.
yVA7M TIL that while commonly associated with the WW2 Normandy landings, "D-Day" is just a general military term for the date of a planned attack; the equivalent in French being "Jour J", "Lá L" in Irish and "Tag X" in German.
joAE TIL that in 1847, when anaesthetic was used for the first time in childbirth, the mother was so amazed and relieved at how painless the birth was that she named her child Anaesthesia.
lodv7 TIL about DOOMSCROLLING. The act of obsessively checking online news for updates, especially on social media feeds, with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that the feeling of dread from this negative.