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TIL the Brooklyn bridge originally was called the New York and Brooklyn bridge

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KLOJ TIL Harriet Tubman threatened death to escaping slaves if they wanted to turn back. “If he was weak enough to give out, he’d be weak enough to betray us all, and all who had helped us; and do you think I’d let so many die just for one coward man.”
QJWwL TIL that the MTV show Celebrity Deathmatch once planned to have a showdown between Captain Kirk vs. Captain Piccard with William Shatner even blessing the episode. Paramount was unhappy and pulled the plug because they didn’t want MTV “F***ing with their billion dollar franchise”.
mpNp TIL Cinco de Mayo is bigger in the US than it is in Mexico, mostly because beer manufacturers saw it as a marketing opportunity in the 1980’s
JaJm TIL the RMS Empress of Ireland had a cat named Emmy who never missed a voyage until May 28, 1914 when Emmy refused to go aboard. The ship left without her and sunk the next day.
yVMLM TIL that Pringles are deliberately engineered to be addictive by combining fat, salt and sugar in the perfect ratio that it releases dopamine in a similar fasion to a drug or alcohol addiction.