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TIL Barbers were also Dentists for centuries!

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lrd5 TIL that Mark Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders NFL team, is worth $500 million but drives a 1997 minivan and carries a 2003 dumbphone. Until recently he ate at Hooters every Tuesday night for $12.99 all-you-can-eat wings. Davis travels to southern California to get his unusual bowl haircut.
9w41Q TIL that the English Premier League doesn't consist of the same teams from year to year, barring an expansion franchise. Instead, the three worst teams of the 20 are relegated to the lower league, the "Championship", and the top three winners in that league move to the Premier.
6XMl TIL that, as a war correspondent during WWII, Ernest Hemingway took off his non-combatant insignia and posed as a colonel in order to lead a group of french militia into battle against the Nazis
LkD90 TIL of the staggering level of American alcohol consumption in the 1800s. It peaked in 1830, at the equivalent of 1.7 bottles of standard-strength whiskey, per person, per week.
9wrOD TIL that dog fighting is still legal in some countries, such as Russia, Japan, Honduras, and Albania.