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TIL All gambling in Finland is controlled by the government, and all of the profits go to charity

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KYNDw TIL that some people experience “phantom vibrations” from their phones. Many people feel their phones vibrating even when they haven’t received a notification, a phenomenon caused by the brain expecting stimuli.
4XOBN TIL Imperial China was the first nation to implement a system for civil service examination, testing knowledge from History to Military subjects. The British East Company got interested and used it for their admissions. Now, its the base model for similar exams throughout western nations to this day
xpoB TIL the human heart contains taste receptors like the ones on the tongue.
R7e16 TIL that of the 120 U.S. deaths attributed to 2005's Hurricane Rita, about 100 of them were Texans who died in the evacuation
9wp6B TIL about Janet Stephens, a hair stylist turned hairstyle archeologist. She visited a museum in 2001 and realized historians were wrong about hairstyles on Greek and Roman statues being wigs. She recreated the styles and published her findings in The Journal of Roman Archaeology.