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TIL Most people in China drink hot water instead of cold

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m1lgx TIL Mozart was actually in the top 5% of wage earners for his time. He squandered most of his money by the time of his death, and was buried in a pauper's grave.
XEA4P TIL that the Christmas Number One Single in the UK in 2009 was Rage Against the Machine's - Killing In The Name due to a campaign launched to protest against Simon Cowell and The X Factor.
VMXX4 TIL that the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, was a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan.
0dGK5 TIL about the Bachop brothers, siblings who played rugby together for the New Zealand All Blacks but also against each other for two different nations: Samoa and Japan.
aw7pA TIL New York Times' puzzle editor Will Shortz designed his own major program at Indiana University, and in 1974 became the first and only holder of a degree in Enigmatology, the study of puzzles.