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MwA0 TIL that the average Brit only carries £17.79 in cash at any time and 1 in 4 will walk away if a business doesn’t accept card payment.
Me9v8 TIL That Steak Tartare gets it's name from a 13th century myth that Mongols (called Tartars at the time) would ride with meat under their saddles to tenderize it, then eat it raw. Though the story was false and the chronicler who popularized it had never even encountered Mongols himself.
KYM1E TIL during a test of the accuracy of dog DNA tests, a man submitted his own human DNA, and got results back with dog breeds they suspected the DNA being from
YJj7 TIL the musicians of the Titanic were legally considered independent contractors rather than crew, so their families received no survivor benefits.
8aMjP TIL There is an active volcano in Colorado, USA that last erupted around the same time as the pyramids were being built in Egypt.