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TIL - Handshakes were originally meant to make sure that the person you were meeting wasn’t carrying a concealed weapon. The hand clasp proved that your hand was empty and shaking was meant to dislodge any weapons hiding up the sleeve.

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0dy5R TIL the Citadel Military College of South Carolina was built in response to Denmark Vesey's thwarted plans for a slave rebellion in Charleston, which had been planned to coincide with Bastille Day
MenDb TIL that Dan Grimaldi, who is best known for playing Patsy Parisi on "The Sopranos", teaches in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kingsborough Community College, as he has degrees in mathematics, operations research and data processing
kVD4 TIL that the government of Denmark recreated it’s entire nation, block-for-block, in Minecraft to help kids get excited about geography. Only to have hackers dynamite the towns and erect American flags over the rubble.
yQXGw TIL Abraham Lincoln wrote poems throughout his life, including this one at the age of seventeen: Abraham Lincoln is my nam[e], And with my pen I wrote the same, I wrote in both hast and speed, and left it here for fools to read
7rZwr TIL that E.T. was originally a horror movie titled Night Skies, which involved a crew of aliens attacking a family in their home. One of the aliens, who was less evil than the others, made friends with the family's son, and Steven Spielberg eventually dropped the rest of the film to focus on this.