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TIL France consumes around 16000 tons of snails a year!

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P9AO TIL that Japanese Macaque monkeys in 1953 started washing their food before consuming it. They now evolved to seasoning it!
XWLr TIL In 1967 Jimi Hendrix opened for The Monkees. He played 8 of the 29 dates, then flipped off the audience, threw down his guitar, and walked off.
yQ4PJ TIL that fearing job losses caused by mechanization, Queen Elizabeth I denied William Lee a patent for his knitting machine in the late 1500s. He had to move to France, where he was granted a patent by Henry IV, the King of France
MGdm TIL the United States has the 2nd lowest voter turnout among OECD nations. Only Korea has a lower turnout rate.
w8EM TIL the first version of The Game of Life featured a suicide square.