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TIL there was a pedophile ring in the 1980s involving top U.K. politicians and officials, that was covered up by the government.

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KOew4 TIL that the the royal anthem could also be called “god save the king”
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VVjm TIL : In 1976 Shavarsh Karapetyan , an Armenian ten-time finswimming World Record-breaker. Saved 20 people from the bottom of an ice cold river when a trolleybus fell down of a dam wall.
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