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TIL the Tea Act that provoked the Boston Tea Party actually reduced prices for US colonists.

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1jE4 TIL of the Coolidge Effect: where the window after intercourse when a male can’t have sex again is removed if the male is given the chance to have sex with a new partner.
QaGp TIL The greatest benefit of roundabouts is not their efficiency, but rather that they prevent T-bone crashes. As a result, there are 90% fewer serious injuries, and 76% fewer injuries overall.
J19pj TIL English-speaking officials in Wales put up a bilingual sign reading "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only", but the Welsh part translated to "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated"... which was just the email response from their translator.
JYK8 TIL that “Mongolian BBQ” was unknown in Mongolia until a US-based restaurant chain opened a franchise there in 2005 bringing the concept that was actually invented in Taiwan in the 70s and inspired by Japanese Teppanyaki cuisine finally to the country it lent its name from
7817b TIL about the London Beer Flood of 1814 that killed 8 people by a wall of porter released from a brewery tank failure.