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TIL Students at Christ’s Hospital Boarding School In England Have Been Wearing The Same Uniform Since 1556

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9YBLp TIL Just like fingerprints, every person has a unique tongue print.
lWlK TIL about “token sucking” - someone, generally a homeless person, earns his sustenance by clogging the token receptacle in the subway turnstile with gum or a paperclip. The tokens become backed up in the receptacle and then “sucks them out by placing his lips around the opening and inhaling.”
9w8NX TIL The US banned sliced bread during WWII as a rationing measure to save the wax paper and plastic used to wrap it. The ban was reversed 3 months later because there was widespread consumer backlash and savings were less than anticipated.
8ayB8 TIL the author of Bird Box is also in the Detroit indie rock band that performed the theme song for Shameless (TV show)
7mkL TIL in 2007 a German pensioner was given a prison term of five months for, amongst other things, training his dog ‘Adolf’ to raise his right paw in a Nazi salute every time the command “Heil Hitler!” was uttered