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TIL the 700 3rd class passengers on the titanic all had to share two bathtubs. One for men and one for women

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XVRD TIL Reborn Doll therapy is used to help Alzheimer and dementia patients (reborn dolls resemble human babies as much as possible). At one care home in the UK, doll therapy reduced the number of patients using psychotropic medication from 92% to 28%.
pY4e4 TIL in 2000, you could pay to be shot out of a Medieval trebuchet. Predictably, a student died.
8abLb TIL in 2016, Russia experienced an outbreak of Anthrax. The spores likely came from an infected deer carcass that had thawed during permafrost melt.