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TIL that people used to eat mummies

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Z8Myv TIL that studies have found having polling places in churches tend to lead to more conservative voting results and having polling places in schools yields more liberal voting results
b9X97 TIL many famous British artists, including Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones, left the UK in the early 70s to avoid an 83% tax on the top bracket of their income.
awrGL TIL about an engineer named Matt Bowtell - who makes prosthetic limbs for people for free using his 3D printer.
D1dMv TIL That the founder of match.com Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com
0k9v TIL In 1991, when President Bush proposed placing the DARPA network into the public domain, Democratic Rep. (now Senator) Chuck Schumer argued “it would be a waste of the taxpayers’ money” to essentially give away the Defence Department technology. DARPAnet became the basis for the Internet.