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TIL That eating with utensils caused the overbite

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6EPjm TIL: The Polish cavalry charge against German tanks was a myth stoked by Nazi propaganda. In reality, the cavalrymen successfully attacked infantry. Some were even equipped with antitank weaponry.
9Y1m7 TIL of how the U.S. Government set up the first bank for "newly emancipated Black communities" after the Civil War; but in the 1870s, Henry Cooke & Ulysses S. Grant got away with scamming the Freedman's Bank out of $75,000 ($1.77M in 2020), crippling the bank into bankruptcy...
xVY8k TIL about the United States Metric Board, established in 1975 by an act of Congress to facilitate the transfer of the US to the metric system, the conversion was to be voluntary, which was not enough to effect the change, and it was disbanded by President Reagan in 1982.
bE70 TIL that wristwatches were almost exclusively worn by women, men used pocket-watches. Wristwatches were first worn by military men towards the end of the 19th century as a way to synchronise maneuvers during war without revealing the plan to the enemy through signaling.
R5Ma7 TIL that brachiosaurus vomit contained more than enough force & slurry to kill you