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TIL - jurors reward the good-looking, penalize the unbeautiful

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lobr TIL the swedish former physical education teacher Richard Juhlin has the best nose for wine (champagne specifically) and in a now infamous blind tasting in 2003, arranged by Spectacle du Monde, he correctly identified 43 of 50 wines. The one who came in second correctly identified four.
D1JwD TIL the cracks in the sidewalk are added to allow flexibility for thermal expansion
OG5b6 TIL that China has a higher life expectancy than the U.S.
bZO7 TIL a 1970s Canadian science experiment made drugs freely available to both caged rats and colony rats: The rats in cages developed drug habits. The rats in normal ‘society’ refused them.
DLwe TIL: the youngest person to give birth, did so at the age of 5.