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TIL the little loops on the back of men's dress shirts have an official name and use. They're called 'locker loops' and were earlier made on sailors' shirts so they could hang their shirts anywhere on hooks on their ship. Universities later followed to keep their button down uniforms wrinkle-free.
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 05:30AM by nasilemak4ever
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TIL a Brazilian priest strapped himself to 1000 balloons as a fundraising event for truckers. He set off into the sky and then disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. His body was recovered months later.
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 08:40AM by grandarR111
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TIL that it was practically illegal to own gold in the US from 1933 to 1974. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order to force all citizens to turn in almost all gold for about $20 per ounce, then declared the value of $20 in gold to be worth $35 in paper currency - creating a massive inflation.
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 10:00AM by POPE3909
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TIL in 1977 Indian painter, PK Mahanandia, sold his belongings and cycled 4,000 miles from India to Sweden to visit his love, Charlotte von Schedvin because he couldn't afford a plane ticket. They got married in 1979
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 11:28AM by ThomasHL
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TIL on 1978, in Pennsylvania, Robert McFall, suffering from terminal aplasitc anemia, sued first cousin David Shimp to force him to give him bone marrow but court ruled against him. He died of massive hemorrhage half a month after
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 12:30PM by Johannes_P
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TIL illegally dumped hydrocarbons caused a Friday February 13, 1981 series of explosions which destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of sewer lines and streets in the center of Louisville, Kentucky.
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 01:56PM by WarEagleGo
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TIL about Jeff the Sea Lion who went over Niagara Falls in 1963. Jeff, who escaped from nearby Marineland of Canada, was eventually captured a few days later “sunning” on a rock with a teenager, Tommy Haines. Tommy was rewarded $50 for the successful capture.
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 06:33PM by radicalllamas
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TIL about a dog named Juliana, who received 2 Blue Cross medals during World War II -- one for saving her owner's home by urinating on a incindiary bomb that had crashed through the roof of his English home and the other for alerting him to a fire in his shoe shop.
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 06:57PM by PikesPique
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TIL that in 2017 an 8 year old learned how to drive on YouTube and successfully drove to McDonalds while following traffic laws
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 07:45PM by MegaZeroX7
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TIL in the 1970s Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak offered a 1/3 stake in Apple for $50,000 to Nolan Bushnell, their former boss and founder of Atari. He said no, but later spent $500,000 on the rights to the Pizza Time Theater chain. He said "It's kind of fun to think about, when I'm not crying."
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 08:01PM by Kiran_Stone
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TIL during the international Tokyo Trial of the Japanese Leadership during WWII, Justice Pal from India was the sole dissenter who found that the defendants were all innocent as he argued that the crimes they were accused of were not illegal when they were committed.
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 05:57PM by ChronosBlitz
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TIL that in 1841 France almost broke off relations with Texas due to a hotel owner's marauding pigs eating the French ambassador's bed linens
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 10:15PM by thisyearsmodel
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TIL Gloria Williams, who pleaded guilty to posing as a hospital employee and abducting Kamiyah Mobley from her mother's arms in the maternity ward, was sentenced to 18 years, which was the length of time Mobley was separated from her birth family.
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Submitted July 25, 2022 at 11:40PM by WonderWmn212
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TIL that after the Italian surrender during WWII, 90% of US captured Italian POWs joined what are known as Italian Service Units. While still technically prisoners, they donned the American Army uniform and assisted with Allied war efforts through streamline war manufacturing and logistical support.
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Submitted July 26, 2022 at 03:20AM by that_damn_apple
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TIL that in 1972 school backpacks as known today were first used at the University of Washington. Existing backpacks for day hikers were modified by Jansport, at the time a Seattle-based company.
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Submitted July 26, 2022 at 04:58AM by Seattle_Paul
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TIL some industries in the USA have mandatory retirement ages. Some include pilots in the airline industry at age 65(up from age 60), National Park Rangers at age 57, and Oregon Judges at age 75.
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Submitted July 26, 2022 at 07:05AM by UnDoxableGod1
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