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TIL although chopsticks have supplanted spoons for eating rice in China and Japan, Korean people continue to use spoons to eat rice and alternate back and forth with chopsticks during a meal

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Qpb9 TIL that while some American restaurants have eliminated tipping, many have had to re-instate it after the “no-tipping” experiment failed. One restaurant lost 70% of its tipped staff. Another “couldn’t compete in the market” and was “faced with the options of raising prices […] or bailing out.”
nWlEB TIL Measured by its longevity and popularity, the Cessna 172 is the most successful aircraft in history. First produced in 1956, more than 44,000 had been made as of 2015. It holds the world record for the longest manned non-stop flight of 65 days, set in 1959.
pYP7e TIL that the artist who painted the Age of Reptiles mural at the Yale Peabody Museum--Rudolph Zallinger--also did the March of Progress: the oft-parodied image of the evolutionary steps to Homo Sapiens
XgPP TIL Gandhi believed women who were raped lost their value as human beings & condoned honor killings. He also labelled women who used contraceptives “whores.” Towards the end of his life, he moderated his views.
96ZX TIL that an attempted massacre at a school was prevented in Israel, because it was the Passover holiday, and none of the children were at school.