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TIL Titanic's wireless operator told a nearby ship to "shut up" when warned of icebergs less than an hour before they struck an iceberg

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69gYm TIL in an actual case of dying of laughter, 56-year-old Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen laughed himself to death watching A Fish Called Wanda
0wG05 TIL 'Flip-Flop', 'chit chat', 'criss cross', are actually examples of a grammatical rule in English called, 'Ablaut Reduplication'. The rule always follows the same order of vowels, 'I-A-O'. There are no examples of Reduplication that break this rule.
0wV4N TIL of Frances Oldham Kelsey - who refused to authorize thalidomide for release in the US despite pressure from the drug's manufacturer. The drug caused tens of thousands of infant deaths and deformities in 46 other countries around the world.
Z8k4Q TIL that everyone senses smell differently
voRD TIL that the electoral college was created to benefit southern slave states, not to benefit states with lower populations