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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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0pwp TIL Fairview Cemetary, Halifax has a grave marked “J. Dawson” which still gets flowers left today following the release of the 1997 film “Titanic”
GXR7 TIL that when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, Niels Bohr had his colleagues’ Nobel medals dissolved in acid. They were stored on a shelf until after the war, when the gold was precipitated and the medals re-struck by the Nobel Foundation.
d8loE TIL: The song Hook, by Blues Traveler, is a satirical song making fun of how shitty music has become. I've heard that song 1,000 times and never really paid any attention to the lyrics, which puts me in the group the entire song is criticizing. wow.
8XRG TIL that a former child model once known as “Britain’s Little Angel” ended up in jail after murdering a doctor while high on cocaine.
QvpM TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cold, hard, cash were flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.