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TIL 97% of women traveling 1st class on the Titanic survived, compared to 32% total survival rate of the passengers.

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jNPNv TIL of "The Parcel Post Bank". A bank that was shipped brick by brick via the U.S. post office to avoid heavy freight fees.
bvOj TIL that Mozart wrote an intentionally bad piece of music to emulate the style of an incompetent composer.
54J8 TIL that in 1959, an experimental nuclear reactor meltdown in Simi Valley (35 miles from Los Angeles) released an estimated 458 times more radiation than the Three Mile Island incident. The site remains radioactive to this day, which is surrounded by 500,000 people within 10 miles
PYlnJ TIL The word "vanilla" has a root going back to Latin word "vagina," meaning "sheath," which describes the shape of vanilla pods.
woKd6 TIL that Jesse Owens declared after the 1936 Olympic Games, that he was treated worse by the President of the USA, than he was by the German authorities.