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TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness than Ireland

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Z81Wp TIL not all people have an internal monologue and people with them have stronger mental visual to accompany their thoughts.
b9KAQ TIL of Rebecca Twigg. After winning two Olympic medals in cycling, six world championships, and appearing in Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, and numerous commercials, Twigg abruptly dropped out of the sport, had trouble holding down a desk job, and has been living on the street for years.
78Wjb TIL of a form of Medieval prison 'sentence' where the accused was thrown in an 'oubliette'. A narrow pit where he was 'forgotten' and left to die.
KkbG TIL a man was convicted and hanged in 1673 using the testimony of ghosts that appeared in dreams to witnesses.
7PoX TIL Alton Brown, Food Network star chef, was the director of photography for R.E.M.’s “The One I Love” video as a film student at University of Georgia