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TIL that Key West was called Cayo Hueso (Bone Cay) by the Spanish because of all the human skeletons littering the isle

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OWN1 TIL that “Make feet for children’s stockings” was once a euphamism for sex.
WkYmA TIL The Allman Brothers Band funded Jimmy Carter $800,000 to his nearly broke presidential campaign, without the donations he likely would not have won.
e01Xn TIL The colors in Reese's Pieces are not distributed evenly. It is 50% orange, 25% brown, 25% yellow
dJJZ TIL that in 1856, an Indian mathematician was hired to calculate the height of Mount Everest and found it to be exactly 29,000 ft. Authorities released the height as 29,002 ft to avoid speculation that they had just given a rounded estimate as it would have been hard to believe the exact figure.
ve6D TIL that drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.