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TIL Before picking the name Pink Floyd, the band was known as Meggadeaths

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awXry TIL "women and children first" when evacuating a sinking ship has never been maritime law. It is more common for men to survive shipwrecks than women, and children have the lowest chances of survival. The Titanic is an exception; 75% of women survived compared to only 17% of men.
BrjEx TIL that the Exeter Book, written in the 10th century and commonly seen as a building block of English literature, has been used as both a cutting board and a coaster; the opening pages have deep knife marks, and several folios of the book are stained with a circular ring
Ype67 TIL Dr. Elsie Inglis founded the Scottish Women's Hospitals Committee in order to create a mobile army hospital staffed by women. By 1917, 4 hospitals and 14 medical units had been created, staffed by over 1000 women doctors, nurses, orderlies and drivers.
jN0Ka TIL that 25% of the bones in your body are in your feet.
9YyQp TIL that prehistoric European often connected Oak trees to their respective lightning gods. Modern scientific evidence points to Oak trees as being more likely to be struck by lightning.