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TIL Most people in China drink hot water instead of cold
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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.
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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.
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TIL that the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, was a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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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.
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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.