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TIL Scots didn’t wear kilts until three centuries after the period depicted by the film “Braveheart.”

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xKVb TIL Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels, invented the girls’ name Vanessa.
bV74 TIL “SOS” does not actually stand for anything; “save our souls” or “save our ships” are just simply misinterpreted backronyms. SOS was simply chosen for its convenient communication.
doM9 TIL that intelligent people tend to be messy, stay awake longer, and swear more
Lk6dV TIL hemp can be used to make paper, cloth, fuel, oils, medicine, plastic, rope, etc. and only takes one acre compared to 4.1 acres of trees to make the same amount of paper, and is even more environmentally friendly, but was made illegal due to the confusion that it can get you high (it doesn’t)
DQxdY TIL that Frank Prentice a survivor of the Titanic, stated that the scent of the iceberg was detectable before the collision occurred.