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TIL Old West Saloon Bartenders hung towels on the bar so that imbibers could wipe the beer foam off their mouths. They were “community towels.”

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4XaxJ TIL there is a seemingly endless list of nicknames of poker hands. For example, a pair of nines is called a pair of Wayne Gretzkys.
x6pEb TIL in 1952, Navy LT Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. Carter, alongside others, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand, exposing himself to one thousand times the level of safe radiation.
VMJp TIL That after their ship sank in WW2, John F. Kennedy towed a man to shore by clenching the man’s life jacket between his teeth and swimming miles through freezing water.
G9E5 TIL that Teddy Roosevelt believed that American currency shouldn’t carry the motto “In God We Trust.”
VMo5k TIL in 1962, Johnny Carson found out his wife had a secret apartment. He broke into the place with a gun and found football player Frank Gifford's framed photos. Getting sad, he drank all night and joked "That guy plays three positions on the field. I could never get Joanne to go for more than two."