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TIL: Lime is the most universally liked scent

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yQwRa TIL that a Cantonese phrase used by parents upset by their kids is that "it'd be better to have given birth to barbecued pork instead of you". It comes from the use of meal tickets in 1950s China in which meat tickets were highly priced and barbecued pork was a luxury.
GY9DQ TIL William Wrigley Jr. began by selling soap and offered baking powder as an incentive to buy it. Finding the baking powder more popular, he switched to selling it instead and gave his customers gum as incentive. Again, he found that the gum was more popular and began to sell it instead.
ebAb TIL that in Serbia, you’re legally allowed to vote two years early (at age 16) if you’re employed.
0YvA TIL “That 70s Show” was set 22 years in the past. If a nostalgic show like it aired this fall, it would be set in the year 1994.
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