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TIL The handshake was used as a gesture to show neither party was carrying a weapon, or to shake loose any hidden weapons.

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wLa0M TIL the names Brendan (Irish) and Brenda (Norse) have totally different origins and just happen to be spelled similarly and gendered
L8o9 TIL of the Iron Front, a democratic paramilitary group that opposed the Nazis in the early 1930s, and who’s flag was designed to cross out the Swastika if superimposed on a Nazi flag.
Q88X TIL: Lobsters pee out of their face to display their dominance.
Emvp TIL of Memory Crystals. A small disc that can hold 360 terabytes of data.
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