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TIL London has Victorian temperance cabbie shelters that are still in use

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p8pwp TIL about Dorothy Kilgallen, a journalist who claimed to have inside information about the death of JFK. She was drafting a chapter about JFK's death in her book when in 1965, she was found dead in her apartment under suspicious circumstances. All copies of Kilgallen's drafts were never found.
4XmJJ TIL acts of bestiality appear several times in European cave art, with the oldest depiction being from a cave in Portugal dating back to the Paleolithic period.
9YelX TIL that hamburgers are called hamburgers because they were invented in Hamburg. And not because they are burgers made out of ham, despite obviously being beef, like I originally thought.
GOQ TIL that when people hear a recorded phrase looped numerous times, they begin to hear it as a song
8ea9X TIL that Streaking (running nude in public) was so popular in 1974 that a song called "The Streak" by Ray Stevens made the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US, spending three weeks at the top in May 1974. It sold over five million copies internationally.