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TIL that Hugh Williams was not the only survivor of the three coincidental wrecks and that the wrecks weren’t all on the same day after all.

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e0nbE TIL it is believed that one of the reasons for the paranoia and bizarre behavior that led to the Salem Witch Trials was caused because of a fungus, Ergot, which grows on rye plants and is a close cousin of LSD. Mistaking it for large rye grain, Salem villagers ground it into their bread and ate it.
oRxxE TIL an Irish battalion fought in the Mexican-American war on the Mexican side.
wLL47 TIL that lottery winners in Australia can choose to remain annonymous after an 8 yr was kidnapped for ransom then murdered after the father won a lottery in 1960.
7r8gp Yes, but not at all precisely. In 1881, the British economist Francis Edgeworth envisioned a “hedonimeter” that would measure economic utility by “continually registering the height of pleasure experienced by an individual.”
e0DGg TIL that there is a school in the phillipines made entirely out of recycled pop bottles.