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TIL that the Oneida flatware company started as a polygamist cult

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neQrY TIL whenever Leslie Nielsen would do interviews to promote his movies he would bring a device that made fart noises to prank the interviewer
AJRx TIL traffic in central London moves at the same speed as horse-drawn carriages a century ago
5YMlP TIL that In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a four-day conflict that cost thousands of lives and displaced thousands more in the aftermath of a Football game. The struggle is still remembered as the football war.
V5mm TIL severing the bridge between the hemispheres in your brain causes the two hemispheres to become separate “selves” with different impulses, desires and capabilities.
KOp0Q TIL the Navajo Nation in Arizona observes daylight savings time while the rest of the state does not, creating the “Daylight Saving Donut”