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TIL Theaters used to hire people to attend shows to clap, cry, or laugh at the right moments in order to influence the audience’s reactions

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MelJW TIL that José Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman was stranded at sea between 2012 and 2014. He survived mainly on a diet of raw fish, turtles, small birds, sharks and rainwater.
14Zd TIL that methamphetamine was nicknamed panzerschokolade (“tank chocolate”) during WWII because of how common it was used among German soldiers
OGZj6 TIL that about 30 million Americans can trace their ancestry back to the 132 passengers and crew of the Mayflower, which landed in (what would become) Massachusetts, in 1620
e0RGb TIL only 20% of USA kids learns a foreign language relative to 92% of European kids
NXQ41 TIL that former French general and president Charles de Gaulle’s eldest son, Phillippe de Gaulle, who served in the French Navy during WW2 and eventually rose to the rank of admiral, passad away yesterday at the age of 102.