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TIL 1 in 5 CEOs have psychopathic tendencies

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XE5Bj TIL that in 1914, a 9 year old Irish boy wrote to the British army, requesting to be sent to the front becuase he was good at riding his bicycle and becuase he would often win fights with lads twice as big.
16klV TIL that "U and non-U English" was a British theory of dialects in the 1950s that noted that the aspiring middle classes actually used "more refined" language than the upper classes - like "pardon?" instead of "what?", and to "pass on" instead of to "die"
J1d88 TIL After his death John Belushi was found to have 26 recent needle marks in his arm
yQ9DX TIL-Blue eyes don't have any pigment. they get their color the same way the sky and oceans do, they scatter light so more blue light come back out.
6EZdY TIL that up until 1994 in the UK, it was illegal for shops to open on a Sunday