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TIL Elizabethan era upper-class Englishmen were restricted to spending no more than 100 pounds per year on clothing.

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jNvmQ TIL that a famous philosophical thought experiment about the senses first discussed by John Locke in 1689 was performed IRL under controlled conditions in 2007, and Locke was proven right
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