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TIL Toilet paper was invented in China

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l7x0V TIL In Britain during the First World War white feathers, which symbolized cowardice, were often given to males out of uniform by women to shame them publicly into signing up to join the war.
Me0Ym TIL that the Mary in "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was a real person. Her name was Mary Sawyer, and she brought a lamb to her school, where it was seen by John Roulstone, who wrote the basis for the nursery rhyme.
Br1XL TIL the aliens moving faster as you kill them in Space Invaders was a byproduct of the processor freeing up more memory as they could be rendered more quickly the fewer there were on screen, it was left in to provide more challenge
aNab TIL the last year the United States went without any deaths in a school shooting was 1981
jjER TIL that the Internet has a patron saint named Saint Isidore of Seville. He compiled the knowledge of the ancient world and made it accessible for his own and future generations around 600 AD.