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TIL: That after the Kent state shootings that 58% of respondents blamed the students while 11% blamed the National Guardsmen.

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8eQDK TIL if you're unmarried when you turn 25 in Denmark, it is customary for your friends and family to cover you in cinnamon
LB4V TIL that chimney sweeps are considered a ‘good omen’ at a wedding. When King George III was on his way to the church for his wedding, he lost control to his horse and carriage. The only person brave enough to stop it was a chimney sweep. Chimney sweeps were then to be respected under Royal decree.
kga7 TIL when evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane was asked by some theologians what could be inferred about the mind of the Creator based on his scientific work, he responded “An inordinate fondness for beetles.”
9DXX TIL that revolving doors were invented because of one man’s paralyzing fear of opening doors for women.
kl17 TIL Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the man for whom the guillotine was named, was an opponent of the death penalty. His family was so embarrassed to have the guillotine named after them that when the French government refused to rename of the machine, they changed their family name instead.