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

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KZkJ TIL the phrase “balls to the wall” is the pilot’s equivalent to “pedal to the metal” and is not a reference to male anatomy
y7vw TIL that actor Zachary Quinto who plays Spock in the new Star Trek went on a spiritual retreat to Peru to take ayahuasca with a shaman. He considers ayahuasca a medicine and not a drug.
DQaYe TIL A 30 year old woman in Nazi occupied Norway was struck by shrapnel and developed a strong German accent causing her to be shunned in the first recorded case of Foreign Accent Syndrome.
nAVr TIL there is a phobia that somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you, it’s called anatidaephobia.
XEbmD TIL that many European celebrities, including Holywood actors Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, George Segals, were stranded in Czechoslovakia when the Warsaw Pact nations invaded in 1968