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TIL that we shake hands to prove we aren't holding weapons.

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nWeQG TIL that there is a term related to the art of hotel toilet paper folding called “toilegami”. The reason for this hotel practice: “Hotels want to give their guests…confidence that the bathroom has been cleaned (so) the maid will fold over the last piece of toilet paper. It is subtle but effective”
9YxNm TIL of the Firefighter's twerk. Due to an emergency motion-based PASS alarm system, which will go off if they remain stationary for along time, Firefighter must sometimes twerk to turn the alarm off.
OMee TIL: Americans can fly to the moon faster than to New Zealand
e0AoD TIL that the survival rate on the Titanic was 61% for the first-class passengers - but only 23% for the third-class passengers.
ro9e TIL There was once a hybrid people who greatly resembled the culture and people of Skellige from the Witcher 3. They were called the Norse-Gaels and they were “Celtic Vikings” from Gaelic Ireland and Scotland who exhibited Norse-Gaelic cultural Syncretism