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TIL: that in Germany. People go to more orchestra concerts than football (soccer) games

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6jgw TIL that Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson visited the US in 1965 and made a speech criticizing American foreign policy; the next day, President Lyndon Johnson invited him to Camp David, grabbed him by the lapels, and said, “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”
R5n56 TIL George Jennings invented the public toilet. It premiered at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and cost one penny to use the toilet. Since then, "To spend a penny" became a euphemism for going to the toilet in the United Kingdom
k48e TIL Great Britain has invaded 90% of the world’s countries
eOo4 TIL that in 2013, a scientific experiment at Hebrew University of Jerusalem found the evidence for something called “Herding effect” - that on sites like Reddit, 1 early upvote would boost the final comment score by an average of 25 Percent by changing perception of how people look at it
M7eMm TIL about the U.S. military's "birth control glasses" which were a nickname for an unfortunate looking pair of issued glasses. The thick brown frames and shape were extremely unpopular and equated to birth control because of how unattractive they looked. The frames were retired in 2012.