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Today I Learned that barber shops were once considered incredibly disreputable and doubled as gambling dens

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gMl74 TIL A butler serves a household while a valet serves an individual.
yQYlp TIL Researchers submitted absurd fake studies to several feminist academic journals, to check their quality. Examples included copied passages of "Mein Kampf", a report on moon meetings with vulva shrines and chaining "priviliged" pupils. Several papers were published and one was called "exemplary".
GAoP7 TIL that the national animal of Scotland is a unicorn.
b5YE TIL Alexander the Great once organized an Olympic Games to honor a dead religious leader. However, since the Indians weren’t familiar with Greek sport, he opted for a wine-drinking contest instead. 41 contestants died and the winner lived for just four days after his victory.
RR47 TIL Japan fines fat people