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TIL no one really knows what the H in "Jesus H. Christ" stands for

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4PVN TIL That women’s shirts have buttons on the left because upper class women would be dressed by mostly right handed servants but men’s shirts button on the right because they would draw their swords with their right hand.
ypQJ TIL Charles Redheffer was an American inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine, He was later exposed when an engineer found a hidden cord that led to an upper floor. Upstairs he found an old man who was turning a hand-crank with one hand and eating bread with the other
OoneX TIL that Ropert Lopez, who won an Oscar for the Disney songs "Let it Go" and "Remember Me", also wrote the song "The Internet is for Porn" for the Tony Award-Winning show "Avenue Q".
r5jW TIL Futurama is named after an exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair that showed what they thought the world would be like in 1959
m69o TIL that lawyer for the USPS once tried to argue that the postal service did not have to pay speeding tickets because as federal service it is above state and local regulations.