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TIL high fives were not really a “thing” until the 1970’s

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xVpAD TIL The Author of the "Footprints in the sand" poem is disputed
rNB1d TIL about the 1863 Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100), a military codified law that governed the wartime conduct of the United States Union Army, making it one of the first armies in human history that prohibited r@pe, looting, arson, etc., with the punishment often being execution.
PKZw TIL that Memphis, the #2 worst city in America, has the cleanest and sweetest water in the entire world; it is so clean that it is even used to make vaccines because it requires very little purification.
kO9Xm TIL that a butcher in Vienna, Austria made Sausages he learnt in Frankfurt, Germany, changing the recipe slightly and called them "Frankfurter". It got so famous that the world (including Germany) calls them Wiener now apart from the people in Austria who call it Frankfurter.
gr9d9 TIL: That Muhammad Ali had Irish ancestry and visited the country on a number of occasions. In 2009, he took time out to visit Ennis in County Clare, the home town of his ancestor Abe Grady whereupon he was also made first honorary freeman of the town.