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TIL that Fried Chicken was invented by the Scottish and dates back to the middle ages.

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GAanQ TIL about "Shanghaiing", or crimping, the once common practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors. The most successful "crimpers" could make $300,000+ in today's money. Despite technological advancements and multiple attempts at reform, it wasn't until 1915 that it was decisively outlawed.
78dMp TIL Göran Kropp of Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.
KOwAR TIL that a toilet break once sank a submarine. When the captain of U-1206 was unable to operate the toilet, he called in an engineer, who flipped the wrong switch, causing water to flood in and filled the ship with chlorine gas. The ship surfaced, was spotted, and was attacked and scuttled.
AaOd TIL That many people who read the word yawn or yawning begin to feel the urge to yawn.
NX5Q6 TIL that life expectancy has been dropping continuously for the last few decades