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TIL 43% of Canadians would rather have bacon than sex.
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TIL Sherlock Holmes was inspired by a real person, Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes at least in part on Dr. Joseph Bell, a surgeon and professor at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Surgeons.
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TIL that Alfred E. Neuman was an unnamed stock character in advertisements and political art dating as far back as 1894 before he was named and adopted as the mascot for Mad Magazine in 1956.
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TIL that during the 1950’s Tour de France, one cyclist named Abdel-Kader Zaaf who was in 1st place drank two bottles of wine, took a nap and resumed the race, in the wrong direction (and lost).
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TIL that Foxconn, the iPhone manufacturer, has reduced its employees from 110,000 to 50,000, thanks to the introduction of robots.
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TIL of ‘Courage’, the Wedge-Tailed Eagle mascot of the Second Australian Calvary Regiment. After refusing to cooperate on a training exercise, Courage flew away for two days. Once located, he was found to have been AWOL, and was formally demoted from the rank of Corporal back to Trooper.