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TIL the musicians of the Titanic were legally considered independent contractors rather than crew, so their families received no survivor benefits.

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woLVE TIL there is over 1 million feral horses in Australia, they pose a danger to domestic livestock and road traffic to such a point they need regular culls. There were no Horses in Australia in 1788. From 1820 to 1860, the horse population in Australia increased from 3,969 to 431,525
Em6d TIL rats who were trained to press a lever for their food would stop pressing the lever once they saw that it would electrically shock other another rat
nWGLr TIL: After being featured in Madonna's video for "Papa Don't Preach" actor Danny Aiello made his own video titled "Papa Just Wants the Best for You" in response.
0dgXy TIL that Sam Spade, despite being a noir icon, not including a few short stories only canonically appeared in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its movie adaptions
OoQ8Y In a new study in Science, a team of linguists at the University of Zurich uses biomechanics and linguistic evidence to make the case that the rise of agriculture thousands of years ago increased the odds that populations would start to use sounds such as f and v. The idea is that agriculture introduced a range of softer foods into human diets, which altered how humans' teeth and jaws wore down with age in ways that made these sounds slightly easier to produce.