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TIL Mohawk “Skywalkers” have a long history of being involved in scraper construction in NYC, primarily because of their learned ability to walk along logs in rivers.

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wLaLM TIL of Rhoda Abbott, the only woman to survive the foundering of the Titanic. A 39 yr-old divorcee traveling 3rd class with her teenage sons, she was able to climb aboard the swamped lifeboat Collapsible A as Titanic plunged. Her sons were lost.
yQLw TIL that ‘Spirited Away’ is actually about prostitution
GAZG4 TIL that historian George Smith, upon discovering an ancient Mesopotamian parallel to the Biblical Flood story, was so overcome with excitement that he began running around the room and removing his clothes, to the astonishment of those present.
JYR6k TIL one of the selling points for introducing the guillotine during the French Revolution was equality - commoners could now enjoy the comparatively quick and painless death of decapitation just like the nobility, and would no longer have to endure brutal deaths such as those caused by hanging.
GyPg TIL 52 years ago today the first television signal transmitted via satellite was sent by MIT from CA to MA.