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TIL only .5% of all housing in the UK has air conditioning

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mxj8y TIL that The Who’s Roger Daltrey is allergic to cannabis, which affects his singing. On one occasion he threatened to stop a show due to people smoking, advising them to “stick it up your fuckin’ ass.”
x6P5B TIL in the Salem Witch Trials, none of the guilty were burned at the stake -- 19 were hung and 1 was pressed to death by stones -- and 6 of the 20 killed were men
n95d TIL British Acts of Parliament are still printed on goat skin. A proposal to end the tradition in 1999 was thrown out, partly because it would “mean the death of the industry in Britain”
w5jW TIL at the end of World War I Japan proposed a declaration at Versailles that all races be treated equally. The allies rejected it.
N7e58 TIL Despite the term 'blood donation', the blood market is actually a multi billion dollar industry and blood given for free by donors is then sold on the open market for profit for as much as $600 per pint, a cost passed down to patients.