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TIL there is a medical chart used to classify types of poop

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xX1D TIL that 2 years after Titanic sank, the Empress Of Ireland sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and lost 68.5% of all passengers (.5% more than Titanic!). The event was buried in the papers because of WWI.
5YWZP TIL 500 members of French 17th of infantery regiment mutinied during the 1907 revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers, and joined the demonstrators. As a retaliation: during WW1 the regiment was harshly sent to multiple death traps with no support, before being dissolved in 1921.
ZpDlY TIL Mel Brooks won an Oscar for making fun of his own movie. After watching an abstract animated short Brooks commissioned his own short and improvised a commentary to make The Critic (1963) which won Brooks his first Oscar.
0XJv TIL that an estimated over 10 million people protested the war in Iraq in February of 2003, making it the largest protest ever.
kJGZm TIL that South Korean artist Chun Kyung-ja spent over 30 years claiming her painting Beautiful Woman was a forgery, despite repeated government and forensic investigations declaring it authentic, sparking debates about artistic rights and gender bias in the art world.