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TIL That in the 1700’s, eating lobster was considered a mark of poverty and that people would bury the shells to hide the fact that they were eating it

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VMp7Z TIL that Adolphe Sax (Inventor of the saxophone) survived a three story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river - all before the age of nine. His neighbors called him "Little Sax, the ghost"
b9ow0 TIL That the tallest man ever recorded in human history was Illinois born, Robert Wadlow at 8'11 (2.72 m) tall. With a shoe size of 37AA (47 cm) and a wingspan of 9.5 feet (2.88 m). When he passed from infection in 1940 his coffin was 10.9 feet long (3.28 m).
noxP TIL there is a charity that buys up mortgages that have gone to collection for pennies on the dollar, then frees the homeowners of the debt. They’ve erased more than $14M so far!
a8DQo TIL: Fort Ross is a former Russian establishment and the southernmost Russian settlement in North America.
AVM4 TIL: Bamboo sharks can survive on land for 12 hours, and have known to have virgin births