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TIL that Socrates complained about “kids these days” in much the same way that people do today.

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nebp7 TIL when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in 1914, initial attempts to tend his wounds were impeded by the uniform he had been sewn into for a perfect fit (and to improve his appearance). By the time aides found scissors and managed to cut through his clothes, the Archduke died and thus began WWI.
4vXa TIL there is a class above the upper class called the TOP class (aka old money), whose behavior varies from the typical wealthy person with unspoken codes between members (based on Paul Fussell’s book).
0w7w1 TIL that if you were to visit the southernmost part of Canada, you would be south of 13 U.S. states and parts of California, Nevada, and Utah
x6EQ7 TIL that Arizona authorities recently conspired to deploy Zyklon B (the same hydrogen cyanide agent used to kill hundreds of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners) for executions
gJO8 TIL there was an 18th-century racehorse named Potoooooooo. His name was originally Potatoes, but when his owner told the stable boy to write his name on a feed bin, he misheard it as “pot-eight-o’s”. The owner found it so funny that he kept it as the horse’s name.