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TIL Wolves can be scared away from livestock pens using Wacky Inflatable Arm Men

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BnEx TIL that Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” is why we say “Merry Christmas” today. The phrase had been around before, but when the book was an instant hit in 1843 it popularized it right at a time when Christmas began to establish as an annual tradition again, so the phrase stuck.
l7xv5 TIL that the British grew a Great Hedge to prevent the smuggling of common salt from coastal regions in India to avoid paying the substantial "Salt Tax".
negb7 TIL that the first self help book was called Self-Help and was written by Dr. Samuel Smiles who coined the phrase "God helps those who help themselves."
grnOL TIL 5% of Americans have Gilbert's syndrome, which affects the liver's ability to process bilirubin. People with GS are less likely to develop heart disease due to the antioxidant nature of bilirubin.
AN96l TIL that people in the 1940s would actually sit in their car trunk to have a beer