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

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8e1QX TIL the Chief Baker of the Titanic, Charles Joughin, survived by getting smashed on Brandy and calmly paddling around until dawn when he was rescued by a lifeboat. He was also one of the last people off the ship, riding the stern rail into the sea like an elevator
XEMZQ TIL in Outback Australia in areas where nobody used to worry about drink driving, distances were often measured in beers. The distance to a nearby town could be ‘only a sixpack’ but a longer trip to the nearest city could be as far as 'a carton’
X0eZ8 TIL that the trope of vampires dying in the sun was only created in 1922 during the ending of Nosferatu
R0PQ TIL the guy who called fast food restaurants causing managers to strip search young female employees for 10 years was acquitted at trial
WK0L TIL Will Farrell worked as a mall Santa. That means someone has a childhood Christmas photo with Will Farrell Santa.