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TIL Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy's, and his wife Ida died on the Titanic after refusing a lifeboat to prioritize women and children.

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NXZWN TIL A replica of Romulus' hut was maintained in the centre of Rome until the end of the Roman Empire.
4bN6 TIL the Grateful Dead hired a “soundman” and chemist, Owsley Stanley, to mass-produce LSD for the band
x6XEk TIL about the "3-S Treatment" which stands for "Shoot Shovel and Shut up" a method used primarily in rural areas to prevent restrictions being place upon owned land due to the presence of Endangered Species by killing them and burying the evidence before they could be discovered by the government.
vLa4 TIL that the current CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, is the woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google.
gKM4 TIL during the cleanup of the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942 (which killed 492 people) firefighters found several dead guests sitting in their seats, with drinks in their hands. They had been overcome so quickly by fire and toxic smoke that they hadn’t had time to move.