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TIL Lord Kitchener, famous for his appearance in the "Your Country Needs You!" recruiting poster, died during WW1 when his ship sank.

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KOLBE TIL the oldest ceramic ever found is from China and it's 20000 years old. Pottery appeared during the last ice age, long before Stone Age humans took up farming and animal husbandry
woyG7 TIL Theaters used to hire people to attend shows to clap, cry, or laugh at the right moments in order to influence the audience’s reactions
OGAwe TIL of Bruno Lüdke, a mentally disabled man who was made to confess dozens of murders and framed as serial killer by the Nazis who ultimately killed him in medical experiments
y0d8 TIL the word nimrod comes from a biblical figure, king Nimrod, who was a mighty hunter, but now means a stupid person after Bugs Bunny sarcastically referred to the hunter Elmer Fudd as nimrod in 1932. Most people did not get the joke and assumed it meant «stupid».
4kK0b TIL The deadliest aviation accident in US history was American flight 191 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago in 1979. The DC-10 passenger plane crashed just after takeoff, killing all 273 people aboard. The FAA promptly banned all DC-10s from flying in US airspace pending investigation.