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TIL You could buy an Electric Car with the same 100 mile range as a brand new Nissan Leaf over 100 years ago!

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yVBeV TIL that the percentage of UK households considered white-collar (managers, supervisors, clerks) rose from 34% in 1968 to 55% in 2016.
MeO5K TIL that the enzyme bromelain in pineapples literally digest the tissues in your mouth, hence the sore mouth feeling when you eat pineapples.
0dPQR TIL that the cannibal, Armin Meiwes, said the human meat tastes like pork, but a little bitterer and stronger. He ate an estimated 20 kg. (44 lb.) of his victims.
epmaD TIL while filming the scene in 1983’s “A Christmas Story” where Ralphie is dressed as a sheriff, a prop man gave actor Peter Billingsley real Red Man chewing tobacco. Peter, who was 12, didn’t know the difference and ingested it. Production then had to be shut down until Billingsley recovered.
jNLwp TIL of the Stolperstein; small brass plaques dotted around Berlin and other European cities to commemorate victims of Nazi persecution.