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TIL handshakes were originally meant to confirm you had no weapons in your hands or up your sleeves (hence the shaking motion to jiggle them out)

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W7d1d TIL that one of the reasons for the title “Final Fantasy” is the fact that Square Enix was under threat of bankruptcy, meaning that the game may have been their last.
ZxoG TIL that “America’s public school teachers almost uniformly now come from the bottom 25 percent of their college classes.”
EgGWX TIL a giant island called “Forty Acre Bog” in Lake Chippewa has to be pushed by boats away from a bridge almost every year
Lk5ep TIL that, Alan Turing, widely considered to be the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence, was chemically castrated by the British Government for being a homosexual; following which he took his own life in 1954. He officially remained a criminal until 2013.
89Nb TIL Ferris Bueller’s actual “day off” was June 5, 1985, pinpointed by the data from the Braves v Cubs game he attended.