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TIL that at the Hoover dam construction the first worker death was that of J. G. Tierney and the last death was that of his son Patrick Tierney which came 14 years after the death of his father

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VBMym TIL that there is a scientific basis s for “Mom Eyes”: women are better at remembering where things are.
e0pW5 TIL that between 1664 and 1967, America had miscegenation laws that prevented interracial marriage, and that the first marriage licenses were intended to allow the government to enforce this law
e0BM6 TIL Tippi Hedren was traumatized while filming Hitchcock’s The Birds. He told her mechanical birds were to be used during the famous bedroom scene. Instead she endured 5 days of prop men flinging dozens of live gulls, ravens and crows at her. One of the birds gouged her cheek and just missed her eye
VXrD TIL that Voltaire, who was strongly against the Christian church, was asked by a priest to renounce Satan while on his deathbed. His response: “Now is not the time for making new enemies.”
rR1De TIL Blackbeard and his crew would lock themselves in the hold of the ship and light pots of sulphur to see who could last the longest without suffocating.