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TIL Old west quick-draw duels, although often romanticized by western movies are actually a myth.

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ZpDnD TIL that the only member of the American rock band ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard, is named Frank Beard.
YpnZP TIL Most Scientists Thought Stories of Rocks Falling from the Sky Weren't Real Until Meteorites Fell in Normandy, France in 1803
epEa6 TIL of a cant language utilized by Mormon missionaries in Japan known as Senkyoshigo. It synthesizes English function words with a primarily Japanese lexicon with English pronunciations of words. Some words include cook-chan, kanji jock, trunky, Eigo bandit, fud, bucho, golden kazuko and greenbean.
wLNkE TIL that both the Carpathia (which rescued Titanic's passengers) and the Californian (which was nearby but allegedly never saw Titanic's distress signals) were both sunk in WW1. Carpathia lies in 600 feet of water off of Ireland and California lies somewhere off of Greece but has never been found
p8e5N TIL Slave Bible, an abridged version of the bible made for slaves, in which the enslaved Israelites never left Egypt and lines that condemn slave owners were removed.