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TIL middle class workers are looked down on for golfing

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mxLER TIL that the percussion cap was invented by a Scottish reverend whose guns were too slow for goose and wild game hunting.
0da9y 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.
oB5EA 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.
5VQKB 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.
N7j4P TIL Known for her tense thrillers such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, novelist Patricia Highsmith preferred snails to people.