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TIL 1820s movie audiences were 80% women

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b6QAZ TIL The last large remnant of Carib (indigenous people of the Caribbean) culture was destroyed in a 1902 volcano eruption.
rvAy TIL Albert Einstein once declared that his second best idea after the theory of relativity was adding an egg to his soup while it was cooking so he wouldn’t have an extra pot to wash afterwards
0drrv TIL there was a company called Psystar Corporation that manufactured computers running Apple's Mac OS X Leopard without their permission, resulting in lawsuits from Apple.
1N4V TIL the crack of the Apatosaurus dinosaur’s tail tip would have released 2,000 times more energy than comes off a bullwhip, and the sound would have been over 200 decibels, a cannonlike boom traveling across the Mesozoic landscape for miles. This ability is believed to be due to sexual selection.
rRkN1 TIL when the ship the HMS Guardian struck an iceberg in 1789, its captain decided to stay on it with 62 people. 259 left in boats. However, the captain was able to save the ship and sail back to land. It took 9 weeks, but everyone on the ship made it. Of the 259 that left, only 15 survived.