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TIL, The British National Grid have to prepare for power surges due to so many people switching on kettles during advertisement breaks of popular shows.

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9wnJX TIL in 2018 it was discovered that for 6 years the city of New Orleans and Palantir Technologies, a data mining firm, worked together with the NOPD to secretly create it's predictive policing technology without the knowledge of even top city officials.
5Vm4r TIL: The president of France is the co-prince of Andorra.
yQmxV TIL about Drayton Daugherty, a doctor who cured a dying man by pretending to undo a voodoo hex in a last ditch effort after modern medicine didn't work. The man believed he was cured and lived for ten more years.
BNyd TIL Tolkien’s son hates The Lord of the Rings movies
neybY TIL that infants require more General Anaesthetic than adults. For example a 6 month old baby requires almost 2x the amount to become unconscious than a 60 year old. My wife is studying Pharmacokinetics and I'm learning vicariously when she explains some the fascinating stuff. PubMed link as ref.