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TIL Pirates wore eyepatches so when they went below deck where it was dark they could lift it up and immediately be able to see better

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vpxx TIL: Men are more likely to be overweight than women, but women are more likely to be severely obese than men.
epBPE TIL the Cherokee writing system was invented by one man, Sequoyah. His 6yo daughter was the first to learn it, but they were charged with sorcery. Kept apart, they wrote letters to one another; this convinced the town it was just communication. 25 years later, nearly 100% of Cherokee were literate.
kJe5m Til poles at strip clubs spin, not the strippers on them.
e0YW4 TIL of the Kengir Gulag Uprising, where inmates assumed control over a camp. Due to the large body of educated inmates the 40 days of freedom saw the creation of plays, an ex-noble organizing a café, priests organizing marriages, engineers creating improvised radios and a hydroelectric powerstation
VM0aD TIL that it is illegal to include the Emergency Broadcast system alert tones in any broadcast media in any context, unless it's coming through the actual Emergency Broadcast System. Even when remixed to sound different, networks can be fined thousands of dollars for each time the tone is broadcast.