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TIL: Due to widespread unemployment and car ownership in the US in the 1910s, an Uber-like taxi service started called Jitney where individuals used their person cars to drive people to their destination for money

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EgOYw TIL The last ship sunk by an Iceberg with loss of life was the MS Hans Hedtoft in 1959 during the return leg of her maiden voyage. She sank in 4 hours with the loss of all 95 people aboard.
9Y9MX TIL the movie (and song) “9 to 5” was inspired by an actual women’s labor movement called 9 to 5 that started in Boston in the 1970s
9Y8VM TIL that in 1857 John Nicholson burst into an officers’ dinner and said: “I am sorry, gentlemen, to have kept you waiting for your dinner, but I have been hanging your cooks." Nicholson had found out the cooks had poisoned the soup and so he had killed them all.
oVdA TIL that a popular 17th century Chinese concoction of pickled fish & spices called “kê-chiap” was picked up by the English explorers. The English settlers took it with them to the American colonies. This concoction became quite popular and we know it today as Ketchup.
WklVY TIL "Dairy Of A Wimpy Kid" is the 6th bestselling series of books of all times, selling over 250 million copies