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Til: You weren't supposed to eat sushi rolls with chopsticks

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QD6p TIL that the Gatling gun was invented by a doctor who noticed that the majority of soldiers died in the civil war due to diseases not gun shot wounds
RWXQ TIL that fortune telling is a class B misdemeanor in the state of New York. Under New York State law, S 165.35:
wve6 TIL a lost report on Christopher Columbus from c.1500 came to light in 2006 accusing him of tyranny, torture, mutilation and parading native women naked through the streets and selling them into slavery.Columbus was imprisoned on his return to Spain.
mwNE TIL there was a famous 18th century racehorse named Potoooooooo. His original name was Potatoes. Potatoes acquired the strange spelling of his nickname, Pot-8-Os, when a stable lad was asked to write it on a feed bin. The lad’s version, Potoooooooo, was said to amuse his lordship so he kept it.
opRE TIL that North Korea has more submarines than the United States.