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TIL in 2015 people spent more money at restaurants than on groceries for the first time ever according to the United States Commerce Department.

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6E8Ql TIL 54 oenology (wine science) students were secretly given white wine dyed with tasteless red food coloring and they overwhelmingly described the flavors as if it were red wine.
88la TIL that J.K. Rowling contemplated suicide which was how the Dementors were put in the Harry Potter Series.
ZGXQ TIL: We have a detailed plan for colonizing space, and we are a little behind schedule.
e5wk TIL that while many woodland creatures harbor ticks and spread Lyme disease, opossums kill 96.5% of ticks that land on them and that a single opossum may be “hoovering up and killing” 4,000 ticks every week and thereby protecting us from Lyme disease
OOO7 TIL that in the 1930s, to control prices, govt placed caps on how much a farmer could produce, claiming that a farmer growing more than that cap, even just to feed his family, was “interstate commerce” because NOT having to buy grain to feed his family would affect prices - the Supreme Court agreed!