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TIL, that when he was Knighted, the producer of The Beatles Sir George Martin, chose the motto ‘Amore Solum Opus Est’ or 'All You Need is Love’.

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7r77r TIL The World Anti-Doping Agency restricted the use of caffeine in all Olympic events until 2004. The bar to fail a drug test for caffeine was 12 microgram/ml in urine, which means an Olympic athlete would have ingested the equivalent of 8 espressos in a few hours.
ZpxMv TIL that Victor Hugo requested a very simple funeral with a pauper's casket. The government and Parisians made it a massive event. ~2 million people attended, brothels shut down, and a feminist journal complained that gymnasts and the department stores preceded the suffragists in the procession.
N7r1M TIL When his eight years as President of the United States ended on January 20, 1953, private citizen Harry Truman took the train home to Independence, Missouri, mingling with other passengers along the way. He had no secret service protection. His only income was an Army pension.
Lk7rv TIL that there are “harbinger zip codes”, these contain people who tend to buy unpopular products that fail and tend to choose losing political candidates. Their home values also rise slower than surrounding zip codes. A yet to be explained phenomena where people are "out of sync" with the rest.
5YBK8 TIL about Centerbe (italian for "one hundred herbs"), a liqueur made by aromatic herbs obtained of about one hundred species of wild mountain herbs, expertly selected and collected on the slopes of the Abruzzo mountains,according to an ancient Benedictine recipe.