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TIL that a minority of people use two spaces after a period and that one space has been endorsed by the Chicago Manual of Style

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nWeQG TIL that there is a term related to the art of hotel toilet paper folding called “toilegami”. The reason for this hotel practice: “Hotels want to give their guests…confidence that the bathroom has been cleaned (so) the maid will fold over the last piece of toilet paper. It is subtle but effective”
v1GgB TIL Typhoid Mary is the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook.
R5wJ6 TIL The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling tested parachutes as a part time job. The amount of money he earned depended on the danger of the jump. In one instance, he earned $1,000 for testing a jet ejection seat that had killed the previous three testers.
M7o9m TIL the sirens from Homers Odyssey were never said to be actually beautiful, or even mermaids. Instead, they were strange human-faced bird creatures who lured men to their deaths by promising them wisdom and knowledge of the future
loWDN TIL that the Chamber of Commerce is not a government agency. Instead, it is "the world’s largest business organization"