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TIL that 8.2% of Norwegians eat tacos every Friday night

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5YRlB TIL: The US has its own version of the international foot measurement, the US Survey Foot Measurement.
XEPYD TIL about the G.I Joe Fallacy, named so by two women professors at Yale, means that knowing is not half the battle. But knowing that the G.I Joe Fallacy is a fallacy is less than half the battle.
Nyj8 TIL In medieval England, the punishment for a baker who cheated customers could be losing his hand. To protect against this, many bakers would add an extra loaf to an order, making a “baker’s dozen” 13.
x6810 TIL: that Bob Dylan’s “positively 4th street” is referenced to 4th avenue in New York, the heart Of Greenwich Village. Where the folk scene was based and where Bob Dylan originally started his career at, with other folk artists, many of whom hated Dylan after his electric performance at Newport
7gbZ TIL that there is no economic gain to be made from deforesting the Amazon to grow crops, as more deforestation leads to less rainfall which leads to lower crop yield.