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TIL the collars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.

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XENME TIL of a "body farm", where the decomposition of human corpses is studied by leaving bodies outside in a variety of topographic and climate conditions. There are facilities in US, Canada, Australia, India, and UK. Over 100 bodies are donated to the University of Tennessee facility alone every year.
KO8b6 TIL that a 'White Hurricane' hit Michigan in November of 1913 with 90mph winds, waves over 35ft high and resulted in 250 deaths, 19 destroyed ships and 19 other ships stranded.
oBdZK TIL the potential assassin, Richard Lawrence, of Andrew Jackson had both of his guns misfire & Jackson then clubbed him with his cane. Even members of the House had to stop him from beating the man to death.
xVV6D TIL the wreck of the Titanic is so deep in the ocean that there’s very little oxygen so it doesnt really rust. Instead it is being slowly consumed by anaerobic bacteria (a kind that doesn’t need oxygen to live). Within a few hundred years, a pile of iron ore will be all that remains of the titanic.
JXl8 TIL that there are legless lizards that are basically lizards without limbs, but not snakes.