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Today I Learned that footmen in a great house would always be called "James" or "John" regardless of what their actual name was. This was because the footmen may have a too working-class sounding name.

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4XnNg TIL Anna Bagenholm survived the lowest body temperature ever recorded at 56.7 F (13.7 C). She had been skiing when she fell through a frozen stream and became stuck for 80 minutes. Despite being clinically dead, she made a full recovery and is now working at the same hospital that saved her life.
5VnkP TIL about Volcanoville, California which got its name from miners' mistaken belief that a nearby mountain was an extinct volcano.
DQv4D TIL the U.S. became a net energy exporter in 2019 for the first time since 1958
GYk95 TIL that Gandhi wrote 2 letters to Hitler, one a month before the war and one in during it, both of which were intercepted by the British and never made it to Hitler.
a89QA TIL After living in London for 14 years, Cillian Murphy moved back to his native Ireland in order to prevent his children from having posh English accents