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TIL that crocodilians are the closest living relatives of birds

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9w5W6 TIL one of the first references to the mile high club was found in a betting book of a london gentlemans club. It read "LD. Cholmondeley has given two guineas to LD. Derby, to receive 500 Gs whenever his lordship fucks a woman in a balloon one thousand yards from the earth"
jwXX TIL The person who invented the automated telephone exchange, an undertaker, came up with the idea when he started losing customers to a competitor whose telephone-operator wife was intercepting and redirecting everyone’s calls
enwg TIL Wedding rings weren’t worn by men until the late 19th century.
epVn6 TIL About the Festival of the Exploding Hammers in San Juan de la Vega, Mexico. Young men strap explosives to sledgehammers and slam them against sheet metal to make something that looks like it came from Looney Tunes.
nOxP TIL Texas got its name from an Indian word, “tejas” or “thecas”, which meant friends, and was used to greet Spanish Missionaries.