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TIL that Lentil As Anything, a successful Australian restaurant, allows its customers to pay whatever price they feel for the food.

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R7rRl TIL In 1880, Felix Adler, the philosopher who would later lead America’s first national campaign against child labor, proposed a 100% tax rate on income above the point “when a certain high and abundant sum has been reached, amply sufficient for all the comforts and true refinements of life”.
p8oG TIL that when you type mistakes you unconsciously use slightly less pressure than when you are typing correct strokes.
lZrV TIL of Black Bart, the “gentleman robber” of the Wild West, who’d rob stagecoaches, leaving behind poems like: “I’ve labored long and hard for bread, For honor, and for riches, But on my corns too long you’ve tread, You fine-haired sons of bitches.”
6E0dw TIL the family of Dracula was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.
N7M58 TIL that opossums are great at reducing the tick population in a given area. Scientists estimate that a single opossum can kill about 5,000 ticks in a single season.