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9wZMQ TIL that Sir Hudson Lowe who was Napoleon’s jailer at St Helena, enjoyed creating lots of petty rules for Napoleon to follow including restricting the amount of firewood he could burn to stay warm.
VBnAp TIL: The average age of a first time home buyer in the United States has increased to 36 years
OG8VR TIL that match fixing got so out of control in Canadian soccer that one pro match ended early after the home team’s attempts to score an own-goal were repeatedly thwarted by the away team
EGE0 TIL: In europe they have “Social Supermarkets” that allow the poor to buy discarded goods from normal supermarkets at very cheap prices.
X0DLr TIL about the Higgs boson, also known as 'the God particle', an elementary particle which is responsible for granting other particles their mass. Its existence was first proposed in the 1960's, but evidence for the particle would only be found in 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider.