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TiL:People didn’t empty chamber pots into the streets in the middle ages.

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XEDnr TIL the sea route that Titanic sunk on should have been populated by many other ships, which could have saved victims of the sinking, however, ships transferred their coal to Titanic in port so she could make the date of her voyage, resulting in the area being virtually isolated when Titanic sunk.
WkD18 TIL the last time Germany did not make an appearance at the FIFA World Cup was 1950, when it was banned from entering.
DR4Y TIL Jehovah’s Witnesses have falsely predicted the end of the world 20 times.
R7Y58 TIL In 2016 a company crowdfunded a fake video game console. The company used tape and cardboard with an Atari Jaguar shell and an SNES motherboard to show it off at a trade show. After confronted they were unable to produce a working prototype and canceled the console.
6poX TIL: The British used to tell their orphans were going on a ‘day trip’, only to put them on a boat for six weeks and forcibly relocate them to Australia