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TIL Rich people in China often hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences.

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P146w TIL 'Lord' and 'Lady' derive from Old English 'hlaf-weard' and 'hlaf-dige'; bread-warden and bread-kneader
E1e0d TIL that the Rolls Royce-Bentley V8 was in production for 61 years until it was discontinued this year (2020). The last car to use it was the Bentley Mulsanne.
8eYPZ TIL researchers discovered a 430,000-yr-old skull in a Spanish cave that bears evidence of deliberate, lethal blunt force trauma which represents the earliest case of murder in the hominin fossil record. The site where it was found is only accessible through a vertical chimney that extends 40ft down
KYjP4 TIL that Women's football was banned by the Football Association in the UK from 1921 until 1971
4k0M5 TIL that Dippin Dots, the popular ice cream snack commonly found in stadiums, arenas, and theme parks, were originally created as cryogenically frozen cow feed.