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TIL It's a common practice in the Victorian Era to return or burn love letters when a relationship ends to prevent them from being used as blackmail or to compromise the honor of the parties involved

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Rdpl TIL scientists once recruited theater students to drunkenly stumble into bars, to test whether bartenders over-serve patrons. They found that bartenders were more likely to over-serve drunk women than men.
N7vgM TIL of the ecocide at Chaco Canyon. When the Anasazis arrived at Chaco Canyon, it was a dense woodlands, but after years of deforestation, harmful farming practices, and finally a drought, the area is now a desert. Occupation there only lasted around 200 years.
GA1ZQ TIL that in the 1940s, filmmaker Orson Welles was under investigation by the FBI as they believed he had ties to communist activities because of his film “Citizen Kane”. He was considered such a threat that the FBI had him on a list of people who should be apprehended in case of a national emergency
W79Ao TIL that in 2021, before a Quebec City family-run shoe store closed, which had operated since 1936, a hidden door was found behind a shelving unit. Upon opening the door, the family discovered rows and rows of boxes of shoes that were manufactured sometime around the 1960s.
VRDG TIL a study where stradivaris and new violins were blind-tested has shown that most people prefer the sound of the newer instruments