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TIL that sea bathing became popular in the 1700s -- women would wear loose gowns and sometimes had lead weights sewn in so that the gown did not float up in order to maintain their modesty

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rNDd0 TIL that Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia and severe anemia, and five months later her husband, Simon Monjack, died of pneumonia and severe anemia.
8yOP TIL Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, realized his success as a high school dropout might convince teenagers to quit school - so in 1993 he went back to school and got his GED.
ADOjl TIL that Russia and the US are only 2.4 mi (3.9 km) apart due to the positioning of the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Diomede (US) and Big Diomede (Russia) are in view of each other, and in winter it’s technically possible to walk across the ice from US to Russia.
VMPk0 TIL that airport runways at higher elevations need to be longer because the thin air at high elevations results in less lift on the aircraft
1d74 TIL 20% of all words in the English language are words from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings. Consequently, the modern Scandinavian languages are ranked among the easiest languages to learn for English speakers.