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TIL: San Francisco is no longer the most expensive place to live.

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6RRw TIL Coconuts and coconut cultivation are so old, we don’t know where on Earth they originated
epQkD TIL of the Persian Princess. In 2000, a Pakistani man tried selling a mummy on the black market, believed to be an ancient Persian princess by a renowned archaeologist. It was later discovered that she was not a princess but a woman who had been killed in 1996.
MexP8 TIL The "wine key" style corkscrew was originally called a "wine key" because it was invented by a German man named Karl Wienke
PoKL TIL the small cloth placed over the back of your chair on a plane or a train is called an ‘antimacassar’. They are so named because they were originally used to protect the fabric of the chair from macassar oil; a very famous hair product in the Victorian period.
dXd9 TIL in medieval England children were beaten on the 28th of December to remind them of King Herod’s cruelty.