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TIL those making less than $10,000 a year spend $597 on the lottery meanwhile the average US household spends $162. States not only know this; they actually target the poor with lottery ads.

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a8EPJ TIL about Doc Holliday/John Henry Holliday a dentist and gunfighter in the American West, who participated in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. He is known as the deadliest dentist in the west.
1aRdV TIL there is evidence the vikings were rather literate. Artifacts found often have their owner's name on them, or descriptions of the item. One item found had written on it "I am a comb".
pYygp TIL Neanderthal tooth plaque indicates they used poplar (source of salicylic acid aka aspirin) and penicillin mold about 40k years before Bayer made aspirin or Fleming discovered penicillin.
dND8 TIL that eating and drinking in the chamber of the British parliament are both strictly prohibited. The sole exception is for the Chancellor of the Exchequer who is allowed an alcoholic drink when delivering the Budget statement.
4MMa TIL of Cookie, a cockatoo who has been a resident of the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago since it opened in 1934. He will turn 82 in this coming June.