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TIL Contrary to popular belief wooden cutting boards harbor less bacteria than plastic ones after normal cleaning.

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4XZdJ TIL about the potlatch, a ceremony of some First Nations on the Canadian Northwest Coast held to celebrate events (ex. marriages, births). It served to confer status and redistribute wealth, which was seen as anti-Christian and wasteful of personal property, leading to a federal ban from 1884-1951.
Br65e The author says he's been writing daily while isolating to avoid Covid-19, raising fans' hopes that he might complete Winds of Winter.
VMaPk TIL that limping was a fad in Victorian England. Young women admired the genuine limp of Alexandra of Denmark, bride of the Prince of Wales. So, women went around fake limping, dubbed the "Alexandra Limp." Shopkeepers at the time sold pairs of shoes with one high heel and one low.
LkRkZ TIL about the Interrobang (‽). A punctuation mark that should be used in place of ?!, ?!?, or any other such combination. It was first proposed for use in 1962 by the head of an advertising agency who simply believed it looked better to use only a single punctuation mark.
l7ZbA TIL that Louis XVI literally did not know how to have sex. When he tried with Marie would ‘’ introduces the member," but then "stays there without moving for about two minutes," withdraws without having completed the act and "bids goodnight’’