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TIL that Americans in the mid 1800s drank incredible amounts of alcohol - equivalent to 7 gallons of pure ethanol per person, per year.

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l7Rr1 TIL about the Earth Inductor Compass. Patented in 1912, obsolete by the mid-1930s, it is a type of compass that uses the principle of electromagnetic induction with the Earth's magnetic field. One was used by Charles Lindbergh in his solo flight NYC to Paris in 1927.
EgKRX Today I learned it’s supposed to be “champing at the bit” rather than “chomping”
0wrVM TIL about Price's Law. In any productive population, the square root of the population generates 50% of the output. (E.g out of 10,000 farmers only 100 produce 50% of the food).
5x69 TIL 15 human feet wearing shoes have washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest since 2007.
epZvE TIL Men at Work's "Down Under" uses the melody of the nursery rhyme "Kookaburra" and the band got sued for it