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TIL Being Clean Shaven Was Popularized By Alexander The Great Because He Couldn't Grow A Proper Beard

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Y84v TIL approximately 90% of all gunpowder used by the Patriots during the American Revolution was supplied by France.
LQrXQ TIL Kellogg's cofounder John Kellogg ran a sanitarium in Battle Creek MI where his cereals were part of the patient's diet. Future competitor CW Post was a patient in 1891, settled in the same town and started selling his own knock-offs of Kellogg's cereals and even opened his own sanitarium in 1892
W71dB TIL that Swedish meatballs are actually based on a recipe King Charles XII brought home from Turkey in the early 18th century
9Ypmm TIL In 1908 William "Bigfoot" Anakin, a local champion, was taken along by a publican to court to help demonstrate that darts was not gambling, it was a game of skill. He threw three darts in the center, no other court official could do the same. The judge ruled that darts was a game of skill.
KOYGR TIL when a group of people laugh, people will instinctively look at the person they feel closest to in that group.