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TIL that the average Brit only carries £17.79 in cash at any time and 1 in 4 will walk away if a business doesn’t accept card payment.

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J1O5m TIL about The Colour of Animals, an 1890 book which made the first comprehensive argument about why animals are coloured the way they are.
kJBMd TIL that cousin marriage is quite common around the world. About 10% of the world’s families are headed by couples who are second cousins or closer, and that the genetic risks and taboo — especially in the US — of marrying a cousin are generally blown way out of proportion.
l7JrN TIL that in 2004 Alicia Esteve Head, under the alias Tania Head, pretended to be a 9/11 survivor, created an online support group and ultimately was named President of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network before being discovered as a fraud in 2007 by The New York Times.
PYwRZ TIL of Beirut's Grudge House. After disputes with his brother over land inherited from their father, a man built a thin, three-storey building just to hide his brother's view of the sea.
9wO7B TIL the use of pesticides to kill cockroaches is thought to have inadvertently contributed to the resurgence of bed bugs since cockroaches are one of their natural predators