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TIL in the U.K., hipsters are known as ‘dickheads’

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QAL9 TIL that the word bedlam originated from Bethlehem. Shortened to Bethlem and pronounced Bedlam by the locals, the English hospital was known for housing primarily “lunatic” patients and is the oldest psychiatric hospital in the world.
v1VQK TIL that Gordon Ramsay has chosen not to give his children a large inheritance, does not take them to expensive restaurants (not even his own), and does not allow them to sit in first class on planes so that they are not spoiled.
OG8Zg TIL that the oldest known place name sign is over 5,000 years old and marks the 'Domain of the Scorpion King Horus'
AX74 TIL there’s a species of bacteria so resistant to radiation that scientists have nicknamed it “Conan the Bacterium”
wLN86 TIL: Cows don’t have forward upper teeth.