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Today I learned about how glamorous commercial aviation was before WWII, with inter-continental flights in the Pan-Am Clipper. As glamorous as taking a cruise ship, but in a plane that landed on water.

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d8pgj TIL on 1829, Anne Royall, the first female journalist in the United States, was found guilty of being a "common scold" and sentenced to the ducking stool until the punishment was changed to a $10 fine
Lmrp TIL that in Japan eating Christmas dinner at KFC is so popular that two-hour lines form at some locations as people wait to get in.
OoZR6 TIL forcing left-handed children to write with their right hands is not in any way innocuous or helpful- it is actually harmful to their developing brains and can result in dyslexia, stuttering and other learning or speech disorders.
NXw9P TIL that the celebrated Tudor warship Mary Rose - rediscovered in 1982 and now restored as a museum - had a sister ship called Peter Pomegranate whose fate remains unknown
PYodL TIL on the evening of July 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy joked he wanted to smoke cannabis; so his mistress later brought him six joints to the White House. After three joints he felt no effects, but then closed his eyes and refused a fourth. "Suppose the Russians did something now," he said.