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TIL in feudal Japan, merchants were the lowest class because unlike farmers and artisans, they don’t actually produce anything

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gMYnW TIL in October 2012, around 25 families showed up to the Nottingham Cineworld theater to watch Madagascar 3. Due to a technical error with the projector, they wound up watching the opening scene of Paranormal Activity 4 instead, causing children as young as 5-years-old to start crying as a result
N7wXP TIL whilst boarding a plane, an elderly passenger threw coins into one of the engines to ensure “good luck”. Plane mechanics later found nine coins at the site, including one inside the engine. The flight ended up taking off more than 5 hours late.
MejEB TIL : There is a method to cut a cake between 3 people where everyone "thinks" they got the best slice. Because of that, this method is called envy free cutting. Same method can be generalized for any number of people, but its gets complicated.
xVk4w TIL that high blood pressure can lead to osteoporosis because you pee excessive calcium when you have high blood pressure
WkQ1B TIL that Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science