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TIL: Compared with meat-eaters, vegetarians are more likely to have a higher educational level, whereas vegans have a lower education level.

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LQEMm TiL that the Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin song "Je t'aime... moi non plus" was so controversial that the Vatican allegedly excommunicated the record executive who released it in Italy. Birkin said this led to Gainsbourg calling the Pope "our greatest PR man".
R78Nl TIL on September 11th 2001, after both towers fell, the cricket like chirping heard around ground zero each represented the PASS device of a fallen firefighter.
VDlD TIL that a Mango craze went on in China during the Cultural Revolution and that a man compared a mango to a sweet potato. He was put on trial for malicious slander and executed.
JY9G1 TIL people were still using the phrase 'abracadabra' in the late 1600s to try to ward off the plague in London
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