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TIL 40% of white medical trainees believed black people having thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings in a 2016 survey

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LklBd TIL Winston Churchill once said that one of life's four essentials was cold champagne and so he drank over 42,000 bottles of champagne during his lifetime(about two bottles a day). The other three essentials were hot baths, new peas and old brandy
0dbY5 TIL Prior to the 1990s, less than a third of South Africans had access to electricity.
nemPo TIL Pandas will sometimes fake pregnancies to receive more food and special treatment from humans
ZGOQ TIL due to heavy inbreeding, Louis XIV of France (17th century) is descended from Louis IX of France (13th century) in 368 different ways
dDlPZ TIL the median American household has a combined balance of $10,000 in its checking and savings accounts