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TIL the average house in the US is almost 3 times bigger than the average house in the UK

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OG4be TIL of the Stripper Index, an economic index based on the earnings of sex workers used to gauge discretionary consumer spending and the state of the economy.
D10Kp TIL Amur (Siberian) tigers regularly prey on young bears and sub-adult brown bears. Reports of preying on fully grown small female adult Ussuri brown bears by a big male tiger are common as well. Certain tigers have been reported to imitate the calls of Asian black bears to attract them.
gJx9 TIL that the famous “Fallout”-Style is actually called Atompunk.
E1gy0 TIL The word shilling comes from schilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere.
GY7lN TIL in 1970 a heat sensitive call button enabled a fire to call an elevator to its floor killing both occupants.