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TIL that the county of Dorset in the UK holds an annual knob-eating contest.

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0BW5 TIL that there existed a system in British boarding private schools in which the younger students would act as personal servants to the older ones. It was called “fagging,” with some of the older boys acting as “fag-masters” and the servants as “fags.”
P1Pke Today I learned the oldest of Nick Cannon's 12 children is 12.
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