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TIL that “&” was originally the 27th letter of the English alphabet.

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leA1 TIL that men actually pioneered wearing high heels and women began wearing them to look more masculine. Men then ditched the heels as not to look feminine. [xpost /r/Feminism]
PYQXO TIL an iceberg with a red streak of paint along its base was found on April 15, 1912, close to where the Titanic sank
gMWa9 TIL that in 1997, 14 year old Nathan Zohner was able to get 43 out of 50 of his classmates to vote to ban "Dihydrogen Monoxide" for his science fair project. His project aimed to prove that the use of true facts can lead the ignorant public to false conclusions. He won first prize.
4kMA5 TIL Carl Linnaeus's remains constitute the type specimen for Homo sapiens. A type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes the defining features of that particular taxon.
VMGx8 TIL about the long-distance bed pushing craze that swept across colleges, where people mounted beds on wheels and pushed them far as they could go. The farthest record holder is students from Pennsylvania's St. Vincent College who pushed a bed in laps around a shopping center for 1,980 miles in 1979