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TIL that dried peas blown out of a pea shooter served as alarm clocks to workers in industrial Britain. It was so common that Dickens made reference to it in Great Expectations.

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LRpV TIL Christian Bale’s stepmother, Gloria Steinham, was a feminist who protested the 1991 publication of the novel, American Psycho, due to its portrayal of violence toward women. In 2000, Bale went on to star as the title character of the novel’s film adaption.
wo8j1 TIL that Footy in Australia is not rugby, fútbol (soccer) or American football. It refers to Australian Rules Football.
9eeG TIL that in 1909, dueling with wax bullets became popular. Defeated parties could be “theoretically pronounced dead… and the supposedly fatal results created general merriment.”
8ayZX TIL A Dutch start-up company have been able to start training wild crows so that they pick up cigarette butts and put them in bins for peanut as a reward.
AN69d TIL the rate of fatal accidents due to wagons and horses in 1907 was 42 per 1 million people. For comparison, the motor vehicle fatality rate in 2023 was 120.6 per 1 million people (USA)