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TIL that brain freeze is a not-very serious condition that is simply your body’s reaction to eating too-cold foods. Its scientific name is "phenopalatine ganglioneuralgia"

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GAAlg TIL about the Lady Juliana (1777 ship), a ship chartered to transport a load of all-female prisoners to Australia, which quickly developed a reputation as a floating brothel: "when we were fairly out to sea, every man on board took a wife from among the convicts, they nothing loath."
VMPZZ TIL In the United States, some 50% of homes had garbage disposal units as of 2009, compared with only 6% in the United Kingdom and 3% in Canada
78ZAr TIL Ferruccio Lamborghini, owner of a successful factory of tractors in Emilia Romagna, started producing his own supercars in the 60s because he was not satisfied of his Ferrari since the clutch was bad, and he had a struggle with Enzo Ferrari
AN0O7 TIL From 1898 to 2006 Americans paid a 3% tax on all long distance telephone calls in order to pay for the Spanish American War.
5J7k TIL that there was a version of Saints Row IV that costs 1 million dollars which includes a Lamborghini Gallardo, plastic surgery, spy training and a trip to space.