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TIL that the Latin word for left hand is "sinister". This prejudice against left-handed people eventually made the word sinister mean evil and threatening.

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OyNe TIL President Calvin Coolidge never maligned his opponents or ran attack ads in any of his political campaigns
1aVa7 TIL slang term "going to the crapper" is attributed to Thomas Crapper, a British plumber which his company sold toilet bowls with his name stamped on them. many believe that he was the inventor of the flushing toilet. the real inventor is John Harrington, therefore the phrase "going to the John".
064p TIL of George Raveling, Nike’s director of International Basketball, who currently holds the original typewritten copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. MLK handed it to him when he stepped off the podium, and Raveling has kept it to this day and refuses to sell it.
wL5lM TIL that before he became President, Grover Cleveland had an affair with a woman which resulted in her becoming pregnant, and in order to cover up the scandal he had her committed & her child sent to an orphanage.
4yER TIL Until recently, The Honolulu Police Department were able to legally have sex with prostitutes while being undercover.