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TIL that there is a conspiracy theory that the Titanic never sunk. Instead, it was her sister ship, the Olympic, and it was an insurance scam.

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QJklp TIL in Jewish mythology, everyone has an angel teaches them all the wisdom in the world in utero. The angel lightly taps an infant's upper lip before birth, to silence the infant from spilling the secrets. Some say that's how we have the philtrum (the indent between the nose and mouth).
jXLv TIL Up until 1915 it was legal to mail a baby by US Mail
OGoA1 TIL of Etta Mae Lopez, a California woman who waited outside a jail all day and slapped the first deputy who came out, in order to get sent to prison where she hoped to quit smoking
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