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TIL that countries with higher rates of tipping behavior also tended to have higher rates of corruption

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P146w TIL 'Lord' and 'Lady' derive from Old English 'hlaf-weard' and 'hlaf-dige'; bread-warden and bread-kneader
BVKy Today I learned that the phrase “First World War” was in use to describe the war from 1914-1918 as early as 1920, 19 years before there was a second world war
OGg97 TIL Hitler was a vegetarian and used gruesome descriptions of animal suffering at the dinner table to try to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat
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