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TIL Louisiana’s coastline is disappearing at the rate of a football field AN HOUR

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wJbY TIL In 1669, King Louis XIV banned the use of pointed dinner knives to discourage violent stabbing and tooth-picking at the dinner table, which eventually lead to the popularity of the modern butter knife.
WkJ6L TIL Agatha Christie wrote a novel in 1941 about World War 2 codebreaking featuring a character named Major Bletchley. Due to this, she was investigated by MI5, but the naming turned out to be coincidental and unrelated to the then secret codebreaking in Bletchley Park.
loKva TIL that people from other countries also adopt American babies (referred to as an “outgoing adoption”) and the babies are primarily all African American
ppVA TIL that O. J. Simpson filmed a TV pilot just before being accused of murdering his wife and her friend in 1994. In ‘Frogmen’ Simpson holds a knife to the throat of a woman and reportedly received military training on how to use it, but the prosecution did not use the film during the trial.
78VOO TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public