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TIL that Henry Ford is largely responsible for American schoolchildren learning square dancing.

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loQe5 TIL the battlecruiser HMS Hood sunk in only 3 minutes resulting in the deaths of 1418 men, and only 3 survivors.
eON5 TIL that in 1872 the ship, Mary Celeste, was found abandoned in the middle of calm seas, with one lifeboat and its entire crew of experienced sailors missing. All the food and personal belongings on board were found in place. The mystery has yet to been solved.
9wNLX TIL about the Hoe Handle War). One of the largest colonial uprisings against France during the Interwar period, while also being mostly unknown. Anywhere between 10,000 to 100,000 died in its aftermath and forced the Colonial government to end various oppressive policies in the region.
gB87 TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.
9WGQ TIL When Peter Falk was playing in a Little League game, the umpire called him out. Falk thought that he was safe. He pulled his glass eye out of its socket and handed it to the umpire, telling him, “Here, I think you might need this.”.