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TIL the term ‘riding shotgun’ comes from the Old West. Shotgun messengers were hired to protect valuables and trains and stagecoaches and would sit next to the driver on trips

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gMdA9 TIL that the irregular shapes of the letters in the Comic Sans font type allows people suffering from dyslexia to read more easily. While many fonts use repeated shapes to create different letters, such as a ‘p’ rotated to made a ‘q,’ Comic Sans uses few repeated shapes, creating distinct letters.
epaM5 TIL-Blackface minstrelsy was the first uniquely American form of theater
6Oml TIL Winston Churchill was seriously injured in NYC in 1931 when he was struck by a car while attempting to cross the street. Accustomed to British traffic, he looked the wrong way and, seeing no cars, stepped into traffic. He went out of his way to ensure the driver of the car did not get blamed.
mxONR TIL William Leonard Pickard, manufacturer of more than 90% of the world's LSD supply in the '90s, predicted the Fentanyl crisis 20 years prior to it happening.
m1WrO TIL that professional wrestler "Kane" is the current Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee