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TIL that more than 1 in 200 Americans is missing a limb.
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TIL That from 1906-1920, there was a movement in the US to remove all silent letters and irregular spellings from the English language (eg: although->altho), funded by Andrew Carnegie and supported by Teddy Roosevelt
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TIL that since American baby names' popularity started to be recorded in 1880, only one girls' name has remained around the top 25: Elizabeth. It reached a high of #3 in 1887, low of #26 in 1948, and was the 17th most popular girls' name in 2017.
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TIL that prostitutes used to wear vaginal wigs called Merkins to hide their shaved vaginas… And their syphilis symptoms. (Nsfw)
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TIL Animal shelters refuse to give away their black cats around Halloween due to fear of ritual sacrifices
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TIL Star Trek’s James Doohan (‘Scotty’) prevented a fan from committing suicide. His support and encouragement inspired her to go back to school and become an electronics engineer.