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QJYRd TIL In the UK It is LEGAL for someone over 18 to buy a child over 16 beer, wine or cider if they are eating a table meal together in licensed premises. At home it is a different matter, a child aged five to 16 can drink alcohol at home or on other private premises.
GYRbN TIL that, after the Norman Conquest of England, nobles referred to the meat they ate in French, but the peasants who raised animals for meat referred to them in Anglo-Saxon. This is why modern English has words such as beef and pork for meat, but cow and pig for the animals it comes from.
kJGYm TIL there is still no scientific consensus for why "the dress" appears as either white-and-gold or black-and-blue
8aVr4 TIL In some jurisdictions, dancers at strip clubs are only permitted to expose breasts and/or genitals when performing on a raised platform; they must be dressed before their feet touch the venue's main floor. Managers responsible for enforcing this rule communicate it as 'the floor is lava'.
Oo0l4 TIL A battalion of Scottish troops who went to battle in kilts was given the nickname "The Ladies from Hell" by the German troops they fought against in World War One.