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

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W0ZY TIL: In the early years of the 20th century, horses were causing so much pollution with their poop that automobiles were seen as the “green” alternative.
d8ewZ TIL that the first woman to establish a bank in the USA was an African-American named Maggie L. Walker in 1903. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank was one of the few to survive the Great Depression and, after a merger, still exists today.
Ydx7 TIL from 1993 to 2008, the same DNA was discovered at 40 different crime scenes in Europe, leading to the investigation of the “Phantom of Heilbronn”, which turned out to be a woman working in a cotton swab factory who inadvertently contaminated the swabs with her own DNA.
wLAOE TIL that researchers and archeologists found the skeleton of Richard III, king of England in the 1400’s and the main character of a Shakespearean play titled “Richard III”. The king was rumored to have severe scoliosis and to have a withered arm.
Ypm4x TIL that Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water.