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TIL In 1909 then MP Winston Churchill was attacked and whipped by a suffragette.

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7QPO TIL that being a “cynic” originally meant you thought the purpose of life was to live virtuously in agreement with Nature, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame; living a simple life free from all possessions.
Y7ZeP TIL That the most polluted place on the planet is Lake Karachay, located near the Ural Mountains in Russia. In 1990, standing on the shore for 1 hour would give you a lethal radiation dose of 600 roentgen, more than enough to kill you.
vkL4 TIL that If 1 in 10 of US smokers quit, $63 billion would be saved in the US alone
8a1m4 TIL The Lion King (2019) is the highest-grossing computer animated film of all time while The Lion King (1994) is the highest-grossing traditionally animated film of all time.
6L4X TIL that rats who were trained to press a lever for food stopped pressing the lever once they saw that it also caused another rat to receive an electric shock