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TIL: Jack Daniel, famous whiskey distiller, died due to complications from gangrene after kicking his safe when he couldn’t remember the combination.

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GYRLG TIL that The North Face clothing company sued a clothing company called The South Butt and won forcing them to shut down their web store, Facebook page, surrender all merchandise, and pay a $65,000 fine.
b9Doj TIL that in 1909, a Jewish man named Jules Fisher took over a Filipino shrimping village in the bayous of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. In time, he would become the president of the parish, a state senator, and an affiliate of Huey Long before dying in office at age 69.
ka6B TIL that Christianity in its first two centuries was in some respects more progressive towards women than it is today. A number of influential women from that era have simply been forgotten from history.
wowYP TIL that Machu Picchu is earthquake resistant. The Incans created an engineering technique called ‘ashlar masonry’, where rocks are cut to fit perfectly together without mortar. This allowed the stones to move in its place during an earthquake, before settling back in their original positions
EgOV7 TIL of the musical style Bhangramuffin. Fusing bhangra with ragga/dancehall, it was created in the 90s by UK artist Apache Indian and popularised with his global hit “Boom Shak-A-Lak”