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TIL in ancient Roman times a pound of lavender flowers was worth the same amount as 50 haircuts from your local barber.

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yQ4vV TIL: You cannot actually get pink eye from farts or someone having farted on a pillow. “Our pillow is not a host for bacteria or viruses. Yes, our farts can contain bacteria that can transfer onto our pillow, but this will not stay on our pillow for a long length of time.”
wLOvE TIL Tim Hortons, Hudson Bay Company, Canada Goose, Molson Canadian are all no longer Canadian companies
N7ng1 TIL from my daughter that gas pump payments are not just automatic transactions enabled by the user like an ATM machine, but an event where the clerk inside the store is alerted and must actually confirm your card is authorized before allowing you to pump your gas.
4XLXN TIL WWE’s The Undertaker is afraid of cucumbers. Paul Bearer watched The Undertaker, “throw up all over a Waffle House because there was a cucumber floating in his iced tea.” Bearer used to prank the Deadman by placing cucumber slices in his hat and gloves.
M7xK7 TIL that the oldest English recipe for an Indian-style curry dates to 1758