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TIL that hangovers cost the UK economy £1.4 Billion ($1.8Billion) a year.

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awKGL TIL Japan has an almost forgotten indigenous people, the Ainu and they were only legally recognised as an indigenous people of Japan in 2019.
nWWYP TIL the character "Daddy" Warbucks, from the comic strip 'Annie', was briefly killed off by the writer Gray on the grounds that it was widely thought that capitalists were obsolete. Warbucks was resurrected, however, after FDR's death. Warbucks represented cartoonist Harold Gray's free-market views.
X0EZr TIL Cards used in the Jacquard loom led to computer technology.
y6Ra TIL 20 ft long crocodiles used to have long legs, allowing them to emerge from water gallop at other animals at full speed
JYZJk TIL there exists a separate time zone on the moon. It’s called Lunar Standard Time (LST) and the calendar started on July 21st, 1969 at 02:56:15 UT, the moment Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon.