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TIL that fans dont make the room colder, they make you colder by evaporating your sweat

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4koOa TIL there was a deadlier martime disaster than the Titanic: the Sultana. Carrying 6 times the passengers than it was alotted, the Sultana sank on the Mississippi river killing over 1,100 Union Soldiers. The tragedy did not receive much attention as it was days after the assassination of Lincoln.
PKbJ TIL during the voice recording for 1986’s “Transformers: The Movie” Orson Welles complained to his biographer that he had spent the day “playing a toy in a movie about toys who do horrible things to each other.”
Q8oM TIL UC Berkley offers a class called “Simpsons and Philosophy” devoted to the show and its philosophy.
VBRnB TIL in the Switzerland in some parts still there’s no legal age limit for buying cigarettes
x61b0 TIL of the “Christ of Europe”, a Polish concept that sees Poland as a Christ-like martyr for the sins of Europe owing to the historical oppression suffered by the Polish people