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TIL the use of table forks was once considered unmanly and was controversial and the Catholic Church for being an "excessive delicacy".

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0wBDv TIL Molly Brown survived the Titanic and was rescued by the Carpathia. Aboard the Carpathia, a battered Brown did what she could to help the other survivors, including raising money from the wealthy to help poor passengers. Her acts of heroism earned her the nickname "the Unsinkable Mrs. Brown."
4XGl6 TIL every year, hundreds of people go missing into the American wilderness without a trace, with Oregon’s national parks amongst the highest disappearances.
oBebL TIL Paul McCartney wrote Paperback Writer when one of his aunts asked him to write "a single that wasn't about love". When he saw Ringo Starr reading a book, he decided that the single would be about a book.
VMVNk TIL SCIENTISTS FINALLY KNOW WHY DOGS HAVE COLD NOSES
OAyg TIL That a sniper taking a shot at a target behind glass has a very low probability of success. This was one of the reasons why the Sydney gunman was not shot through the glass storefront.