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TIL in 2009 British people rebelled against the ongoing trend of X Factor victors winning Christmas number one by purchasing copies of Rage Against the Machine

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OoM41 TIL that tigers grow to be 150 times their birth weight by the time they’re adults compared to about 15 times for (most healthy) humans.
v1R4R TIL that Jimmy Carter helped launch the craft beer revolution by removing taxes for beer brewed at home for personal use
gr7wA TIL Benjamin Franklin was fond of dating older women, (in)famously writing 8 reasons why they were better than their younger counterparts. Among them, he stated that they naturally provided birth control, were discrete, and could not be distinguished from younger women from the girdle downwards.
E1aV7 TIL the chocolate candy "Smarties" in Europe/Canada is entirely different from the hard sugar candy "Smarties" in the USA
JYA6B TIL of Enheduanna, a woman who is the earliest known poet and author in history from the 23rd century BC, who was appointed high priestess of the city of Ur by her father Sargon the Great of Akkad who was himself the earliest known emperor in human history.