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TIL That All Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded
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TIL of the Semmelweis reflex, a tendency to reject evidence that contradicts existing beliefs. Documented when doctors refused to wash their hands from autopsies to delivery rooms despite evidence this decreases mortality.
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TIL that San Marino is obliged to use Italy's mint, and is forbidden to cultivate tobacco. In exchange for these limitations, Italy provides San Marino an annual stipend of 250 tonnes of sea salt, 40 tonnes of tobacco and 20 tonnes of cigarettes.
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TIL that Guy Debord, French Marxist literary theorist, published his first book with a sandpaper cover so that books placed next to it would be destroyed
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TIL the United Kingdom's 2021 national census was the first census where British people whose way of life or cultural heritage stemming from travelling fairs and circuses were able to register "SHOWMAN" as both an occupation and an ethnicity
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TIL That Outback Steakhouse was founded by 4 Americans in Florida and the only true Australian item they serve is Fosters beer