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TIL Cotton Eye Joe is a Swedish song, not American

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D16xr TIL there were only two baths to serve the more than 700 steerage passengers on board at any one time on the Titanic.
rRRDM TIL that manufacturing is cheaper in China because of subsidies - energy, land and raw material subsidies, low cost loans at both state and federal levels and not because of low labor costs or scale (SEA and SA are cheaper)
VMJrm TIL That women are better at discerning shades of colours, while men are better at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance. These are evolutionary details linked to a hunter-gatherer past.
noMW TIL Mars has two moons which are believed to be captured Asteroids. The bigger among the two moons, Phobos is gradually spiraling inward drawing about 1.8 m closer to the planet each century. Within 50 million years, it will either crash into Mars or break up and form a ring around the planet.
JQQV TIL differences in wealth are so pronounced between countries that “hunger” is defined completely differently for the U.S. vs. developing countries