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TIL a shower should only be 5-10 minutes long

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xVadb TIL that Oliver North once gave the wrong bank account number, and accidentally transferred $10,000,000 to a Swiss business man. (1986)
kJYv5 TIL B-17 crews in WWII were volunteers, they could quit flying at any time. They had some of the highest casualty rates of any service in the war yet thousands continued to fly.
QZbe TIL that in 1848 light-skinned slave Ellen Craft, unable to travel with him as a woman, escaped with her dark-skinned husband by pretending to be both a white man and her husband’s owner. They traveled openly, first class, a thousand miles north from Georgia to freedom.
4Xxmb TIL that after a BBC investigation found that Facebook failed to remove images of child abuse, Facebook responded by reporting the BBC to the authorities
wLKrE TIL there are over 7,000 languages spoken today - 839 alone in Papua New Guinea. Roughly 1/3 of all languages are endangered.