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p8GXZ TIL that when Charles Darwin was a teenager, his father told him "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."
X0DLX TIL while the U.S. and France had similar per capita fatality rates in the 1990s, Americans today are three times as likely to die in a traffic crash
ADOBd TIL Doritos were created at Disneyland to recycle old tortillas that had been discarded.
jNEKn TIL: J. R. R. Tolkien used the name "Bag End" as a calque of "cul-de-sac", to poke fun at the British use of French terms.
8d64 TIL Women used to wear foot long pins in their hats which could be used in self defense to stab men who groped or assaulted them.