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TIL: The United Kingdom is responsible for 40% of the worlds inventions and discoveries

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N7jBb TIL Buckethead played with Guns N Roses, build a chicken coop in the studio, watched hardcore porn in it, and left dog shit there
BrDaL TIL a man lived 555 days without his heart, he used instead device he carried on his backpack to pump blood through his body, enabling him to do all sorts of things while awaiting transplant
nMEY TIL that Piggly Wiggly revolutionized grocery shopping in 1916 by allowing customers to select their own items, “To have no store clerks gab and smirk while folks are standing around ten deep to get waited on.”
l7JBa TIL London's Black Cabs must have sufficient headroom for a 5ft 8in-tall man (1.7m) to sit in the rear seat wearing a top hat.
xVE97 TIL Seneca Village, a predominately middle class black neighborhood, was demolished to make room for Central Park