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TIL middle class workers are looked down on for golfing
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TIL that the percussion cap was invented by a Scottish reverend whose guns were too slow for goose and wild game hunting.
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TIL, In 2009, the remains of an unknown Union soldier, believed to be between 17 and 19 years old, were discovered on the Antietam National Battlefield and identified as a New York volunteer, were found in the Cornfield, and were returned to New York for burial with full military honors.
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TIL : that you cannot copy files above 4gb to a USB drive which is using the default FAT32 format. One needs to format it to a format called exFAT to be able to do so.
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TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time.
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TIL Known for her tense thrillers such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, novelist Patricia Highsmith preferred snails to people.