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TIL In 18th-century England, it was fashionable for wealthy estate owners to hire people to dress as druids, never wash themselves, grow their hair and nails as long as possible, and live in their gardens as ‘ornamental hermits.’

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NXbJP TIL The Universe has an average colour – and it’s called cosmic latte
nWXb9 TIL that if you mistype words on your Android keyboard you can simply swipe your finger across the screen from right to left on the backspace key and it will delete entire words at a time rather than individual letters
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