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TIL there was a British submarine named the “HMS Tally-Ho”

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W7L9o Today I Learned that barber shops were once considered incredibly disreputable and doubled as gambling dens
1WB7 TIL the term Indian Giver stems from a cultural misunderstanding. Pilgrams thought they were getting gifts. Indians thought they were bartering.
6Eopw TIL Aniseed ball candies were used as timing devices for underwater mines during WWII, as each had precisely the same spherical shape and consistently dissolved in water after 35 minutes, leaving the saboteur time to escape
D1Eov TIL The FBI spent years investigating an anti-goth cult that didn’t even exist.Official investigation on ‘Church of the Hammer’ and their Yahoo group ‘GodHatesGoths', continued for over 2 years before they realized the entire thing was completely fake and intended to be a joke.
MeavV TIL the Grateful Dead briefly toured with a PA system called the Wall Of Sound that consisted of six hundred and four speakers, channelling twenty-six thousand watts of power. It has been called “the greatest vessel for the amplification of sound in history”.