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TIL: Only 58% of British homes had a refrigerator by 1970. NONE of which had a built in freezer

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Kvpw TIL The CEO of Spotify was the CEO of uTorrent in 2006
47oN TIL that there is a zebra in hawaii with “golden” stripes instead of black, due to a pigmentation abnormality called amelanism.
dDAyK TIL, canines have a more sensitive CFF of up to 80Hz or 80 flickers per second. "This might explain why most dogs cannot be planted in front of the television to engage them, it doesn't look real."
JrZk TIL that the word “Nonchalant” has no opposite. There’s no “chalant,” just “nonchalant.” Only the negative form of the word has found a home in English.
6Rw8 TIL of a correlation between legalized abortion and crime rates. In the aftermath of Roe vs Wade, Abortion was legalized in the US causing crime rates to go down.