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TIL Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people

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yVkBV TIL in 1714, a Norwegian captain and an English captain had a 14-hour long ship fight. Afterwards, both ships were badly damaged and the Norwegian captain was running out of ammo. He sent an envoy to the English ship, asking if he could borrow some of their ammo. They said no.
8eew4 TIL it's only us Brits that call it Alphabetti Spaghetti instead of Alphabet Pasta/Soup
pY8ZN TIL the McDonald’s value menu hamburger is pretty much the same size as the original burger when the chain was founded 70 years ago, larger burgers were not offered. Fast food portion sizes have drastically increased, and the weight of the average American male is up about 30lbs since.
xBlo TIL a man was executed for starting the Great Fire of London after he claimed he threw a fire-bomb through a bakery window. This was despite the fact that he was heavily crippled, the bakery had no windows, and it was proven at his trial that he was not even in the country at the time.
5k7k TIL there were two David S Cohen’s on the production of Futurama so the co-creator changed his name to David X Cohen because the Writer’s Guild prevents two people of the same name working on the same production.