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TIL: An advertising company wanted to use Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire in a Hemorrhoid commercial

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N7ldM TIL that under the British Rule, the Queen is a higher value playing card than the King, as the value of the cards changes dependent upon the sex of the current monarch.
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MeG4A TIL The fact that animals move from one place to another, without any apparent external cause and often in complicated and unpredictable ways, fascinated Aristotle. Instead of muscles Aristotle had theories on "neura" – usually translated as ‘sinews’ or ‘tendons’