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TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 families on the Mayflower. (www.aop.com)

10 Things You Might Not Know about the Mayflower

TIL that Sigourney Weaver only earned $35,000 for Alien (1979) but got $1,000,000 and a share of the profits for Aliens (1986) (www.joe.ie)

TIL of the Yuen Long attack, where hundreds of suspected Triad members, in order to "counter-protest", took to the streets, beating people indiscriminately with metal poles and wooden canes. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

I've been reading into the topic of the 2019-2020 HK protests, and I find this really familiar with the recent reddit protests. Both started with a not well taken change, both started peacefully, but were surrounded by controversy on both sides. There were also the change supporters, who eventually won when the higher power came...

TIL Mr. T stopped wearing virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, "I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything." (en.wikipedia.org)

So does this post show up in the magazine or is that broken now? (kbin.social)

Just testing. Relevant because of this: https://kbin.social/m/TodayILearned/p/552512/Today-I-learned-that-the-username-checker-on-signup-doesn-t

TIL: Cookies aren't even an accepted RFC, they've technically been a proposal for 11 years, despite universal adoption (datatracker.ietf.org)

Who'd have thought.

TIL of socialite Ida Wood - Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth (www.smithsonianmag.com)

In 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later

TIL Princess Diana didn’t initially die at the scene of her car accident, but 5 hours later due to a tear in her heart’s pulmonary vein. She would’ve had 80% chance of survival if she had been wearing her seat belt. (en.wikipedia.org)

During the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died from injuries sustained earlier that night in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. Diana's partner, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, also died upon impact. Diana's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was...