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TIL Fifty Years Ago, the Transistor Radio Was the Hottest Gift For the Holiday Season

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69BGw TIL In the 1600s a Dutch doctor Cornelius Bontekoe prescribed a cup of tea as a cure all to ailments. As a cup of tea caught on as a popular drink it led to a drop in mortality rates between 7%-25% across England as boiling coincidentally improved water quality
W0VA TIL that America is the only developed country on earth where the current generation is less educated than the previous generation
8llV TIL that Lord Voldemort Was a Character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
GY7Oj TIL: The letters Q, W and X were illegal in Turkey for 85 years until 2013 because the letters were associated with the Kurdic language. Enforcement wasn't that strict for Western companies (like Xerox), but in 2005 a group of Kurds was fined 100 lira for holding up signs with the letters
X0ZAk TIL Léon and Mathilda’s relationship in Leon: The Professional (1994) was inspired by director Luc Besson’s own relationship with a 12 year old girl, who he later married.