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TIL The man who invented the revolving door hated holding doors open for women.

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dD8BB TIL about ASCII, a character encoding standard for electronic communication. In 1968, president Lyndon B. Johnson mandated that all computers purchased by the United States Federal Government support ASCII. It remained the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until 2007.
69WbW TIL about Intercollegiate Meat Judging. Where American Universities compete against one another to see which team can best evaluate cuts of beef, pork and lamb based on criteria such as quality, yield grading, and eye-balling the quantity of fat v. muscle.
v1kLx TIL the name Woodchuck for groundhogs doesn't have anything to do with wood. It's thought to be a corruption of the Native American words wejack, woodshaw, or woodchoock. It may have its roots in the Algonquian (or perhaps Narragansett) name for the animal: wuchak.
kJOX5 TIL Hitler frequently used crystal meth
b9k9E TIL that when the USS Susan B. Anthony sank in 1944, after it was hit by a mine off the coast of Normandy, all 2,689 people aboard were saved. According to the Guinness world book of Records, this is the largest rescue of people without loss of life.