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TIL Native Americans used to eat soil to counteract the toxins in acorns and potatoes (before domesticated)

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m1lgx TIL Mozart was actually in the top 5% of wage earners for his time. He squandered most of his money by the time of his death, and was buried in a pauper's grave.
Wkgo4 TIL a 2011 blind study showed that people overwhelming prefer "professional" abstract art over similar art created by toddlers. Participants even preferred the professional paintings when they were labelled as being painted by a child.
N74WJ TIL in 1842, the British had an army of 16,000 men retreating from Kabul, Afghanistan. Only one man survived after losing some of his skull, protected by a magazine stored in his hat. He arrived in Jalalabad and when asked where the army was, he stated "I am the army".
wpxY TIL Bill Gates has a trampoline room with a 20-foot ceiling in his house
wo5Lo TIL That until Sept 25, 2017, sign stealing in baseball was typically un-enforced. After the Yankees were caught in 2016, and Red Sox in 2018 an investigation was conducted and only the Astros were penalized because they were found to have done it after the Sept 25th memo.