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TIL BBC does an online edition in pidgin English

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7r4wr TIL cheese activates the same areas of your brain as cocaine and heroine
OYwY TIL Ross Perot is “the biggest individual loser ever on the New York Stock Exchange”: in April 1970, he lost $450 million in a single day.
6okw TIL that 30 years ago, you could buy a pass for lifelong, unlimited first-class travel with American Airlines. Now they’re sueing some who did.
JPZv TIL that a 19th century surgeon once tried to amputate a patient’s leg in under 150 seconds. In his haste, he also amputated his assistant’s fingers and slashed through the coat of a spectator. Both the patient and the assistant died of gangrene, and the spectator dropped dead of fright.
QJdO6 TIL the saying "to work up an appetite" originated from back when people would become hungry as the result of physical labor AND THEN consume food. Wow, the more you know! These days, I've just been saying, "Man, I really jerked up the ability to binge-eat an entire carrot cake."