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QJNWM TIL college students in the U.S. on average spend 85% more for on-campus food than the average American spends on food
YwEB TIL when Switzerland added a vote-by-mail option, voter turnout actually decreased in smaller cantons. Sociologists believe that in-person voting created a social pressure in smaller communities to show up at the polls, and this pressure was removed when people could claim that they voted by mail.
dDrOE TIL that an 18 year old called John Horwood was hanged for murder in Bristol and his skin was used to bind his trial transcripts. The transcript book is currently in the M Shed in Bristol’s Prince’s Wharf.
PZZO TIL Stephen Colbert lost his father and two brothers in a plane crash on September 11, 1974
6E7Y7 TIL That Gert Fröbe, the actor who played Goldfinger in the eponymous Bond film, saved two Jews during World War 2. He was a former Nazi Party member, and Israel banned his films after this became known. But when one of the Jews he saved spoke up for him, they rescinded the ban.