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MeM00 TIL that the average British tea drinker will spend $20 000 on it in their life
9VVG TIL that the very first time DNA fingerprinting evidence was used in a criminal case, its use cleared a teenage suspect of a murder he had confessed to under intense grilling.
X0AnE TIL the co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica was a 4'6" tall Scot with crooked legs and an enormous nose that he would sometimes augment with a papier-mache version. He deliberately rode the tallest horse available in Edinburgh, dismounting by a ladder to the cheers of onlookers.
mxlGY TIL College football player Jake Butt won the “Tight End of the Year” award 2 years back to back.
xVpNo TIL that trickle down economics was originally called horse and sparrows economics; with the idea being that if you fed a horse a lot of oats, it would excrete the extra in it’s feces which the sparrows could then feed on.