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TIL More Intelligent People Are More Likely to Binge Drink and Get Drunk

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wokw1 TIL Jello is made used farm animals.
0d8Lj TIL René Lacoste won 7 Grand Slam tennis titles, won a bronze medal at the 1924 Olympics, founded the Lacoste clothing company, and invented the first tubular steel racket at a time when wood rackets were the norm.
XGxQ TIL Russians smile less compared to many other people in the world, due in large part to a popular Russian proverb: “A smile without reason is a sign of idiocy.” (See #9)
gMRvb TIL a 1991 New York Supreme Court case found that “as a matter of law”, a house which had been sold was officially considered haunted. The owners had sold the house without disclosing they believed it to be haunted and had advertised it as such, lowering the property value.
NxrP TIL People in the UK driving on the left dates back to the 1700’s where travellers would keep passers by on their right in case they were a bandit, this meant their sword hand was at the ready to draw if needed.