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TIL Adam Smith didn't invent free market capitalism, the French Physiocrats did

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R79kl TIL that availability of potatoes played an important role in spurring economic growth in the 18th & 19th centuries. The introduction of the potato explains the 25–26% of the increase in old world population and 27–34% of the increase in urbanization between 1700 - 1900.
604Y TIL there is no place you can legally watch and listen to the entire “I Have a Dream” speech for free, as the recording is owned and licensed by the EMI Publishing and the King Family. The only way to legally watch the speech in it’s entirety is to buy a copy.
wLMB6 TIL the English language is the only language (of the most spoken languages in the world) that doesn’t have a regulator body/institution.
l78Qa TIL when it was deemed impossible to shoot the tanker fight in The Spy Who Loved Me on an actual supertanker and no other soundstage would fit the set, Albert R Broccoli commissioned the 007 Stage, the biggest in the world at the time.
BaAL TIL that when kissing under the mistletoe, men should remove a berry for each kiss, and when they’re gone, no more kissing is allowed.