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TIL that the average 18th-century French worker spent half his daily wage on bread.

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m10pO TIL that, before it was known that birds migrated in the winter, it was a commonly accepted theory that birds dug holes and buried themselves in the ground during the cold months. In fact, Aristotle claimed he had found "swallows and kites [...] in holes in the ground".
E1E8X TIL that the American Secret Services tried to spike Hitler's carrots with female hormones to change him into a woman.
PgMO TILed that there is a permanent underwater laboratory called Aquarius that is owned by NOAA but used by NASA to study how people handle extreme living conditions. Residents are referred to as “aquanauts”.
X0LgE TIL Jacob Miller, survived for more than 3 decades with a bullet in his head. He was hit in the U.S. Civil War in 1863, and 31 years later two pieces of lead came out of his head on their own.
OGbY TIL that P-47 pilots could destroy Tiger tanks by ricocheting their bullets off the ground and through the unarmored bottom of the tank.