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TIL In the 1830's the average household drank 7 gallons of ethanol per year. That's 3.4 bottles of Jim Beam per week.

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6E11W TIL that Robin Hood being of noble birth and loyal to Richard Lionheart are relatively recent additions to the mythos, and in his earliest stories he was very devoted to the Virgin Mary while also being very anti-clerical.
6E6Am TIL: Science recognises Ouija Boards users are "moving the planchette involuntarily" and a when answering "yes or no questions, ouija use was significantly more accurate than guesswork, suggesting that it might draw on the unconscious mind" and the users enter a "dissociative state".
yQKal TIL Mr. Rogers was a lifelong vegetarian because he didn't "want to eat anything that has a mother"
vPBeD TIL since 1881 people have been working on the Swiss Idiotikon a dictionary of Swiss German words. The word "Idiotikon" is a term derived from the Greek idios "separate, proper, private" for a dictionary that lists the vocabulary "peculiar" to a particular landscape.
x6ZVk TIL Nintendo’s Game Boy got its name as a riff on Sony’s Walk Man.