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TIL Tipping became popular in the US during the decades following the Civil War, when some US employers began encouraging their customers to tip, thereby avoiding paying African-American employees a decent wage

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v1vgR TIL there was once a wild wolf that routinely visited residents of an Alaskan suburb so he could play with the domesticated dogs. The locals named the wild wolf Romeo and the relationship lasted 6 years.
mYnY TIL that in 1974, an artist allowed her audience to use 72 objects (ranging from a feather to a loaded gun) on her however they wanted and she wouldn’t react for 6 hours. The audience became aggressive, and when the six hours were up, everyone ran away to avoid confrontation.
v1jo8 TIL one of the lost Faberge eggs from Imperial Russia was discovered in 2012 after the owner, a scrap metal dealer, struggled to sell it because prospective buyers thought he was overestimating it’s worth in gold and jewels. It was later valued at £20million.
Gx7g TIL on the real whaleship Essex (which was destroyed by a white sperm whale, inspiring Moby Dick) the crew resupplied at Galápagos by collecting 300 Galápagos giant tortoises which they let roam the ship at will, butchering them at sea as needed.
xBro TIL a 12-year Harvard research study of 78,000 women found that the ones who drank milk three times a day broke more bones than women who barely drank milk.