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TIL that bubble wrap was intented to be wallpaper.

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oR4dE TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules.
YpjK7 TIL about Clementine Barnabet, an American teenager who murdered and beheaded 35 people with an ax due to her belief in a voodoo cult called the Church of Sacrifice. Sentenced to life in prison at age 18 in in 1912, she escaped in 1923 and was never heard of again.
argA TIL in the Great Plague in England, sufferers in Eyam were persuaded by their church leader to quarantine themselves instead of running and spreading the disease. 260 out of 350 villagers died but are credited with saving 1000s of others through their actions.
9YVnG TIL that In 1880, Doctor Washington Sheffield of New London, CT manufactured toothpaste into a collapsible tube. He had the idea after his son traveled to Paris and saw painters using paint from tubes
VBm9m TIL Jesse and James from Pokemon got their name from Jesse James, an American outlaw from 1880s