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TIL alcohol consumption in medieval Britain was high compared with today, with men women and children averaging a gallon of ale a day starting at breakfast

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OMya TIL that a truckload of bananas can trip nuclear weapon scanners because of the slight radiation each banana gives off from their potassium isotopes
nWGVG TIL it's humanly impossible to fold a piece of standard notebook paper in half more than 7 times. But if you were able to fold it 26 times, the thickness would near the height of Mount Everest (6,710 meters).
D1GGp TIL that a successful ventroliquist's career ended when he switched from radio to TV as "his lips were frequently seen to move"
epmaD TIL while filming the scene in 1983’s “A Christmas Story” where Ralphie is dressed as a sheriff, a prop man gave actor Peter Billingsley real Red Man chewing tobacco. Peter, who was 12, didn’t know the difference and ingested it. Production then had to be shut down until Billingsley recovered.
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