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TIL if you wash yourself within ten minutes of touching poison ivy, you can avoid a reaction

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6woW TIL that Kesha, when auditioning for record labels, presented two demos: a “gorgeously sung, self-penned country ballad” and a “gobsmackingly awful trip-hop track”, allowing the label to decide which sound she should use as an artist.
mAwo TIL That the US considered dyeing Mt. Fuji black in WWII as pyschological warfare against the Japanese
oRx97 TIL about Kowloon, the Walled City, which was the densest populated area worldwide until it's demolition in 1993. It was entirely built unplanned.
yQveX TIL that Chicago PD operated an off-the-books interrogation warehouse until 2015, wherein >99% of cases lawyers were shut out and detainees were denied access to phones. The precinct refuses to release reports between 1995-2004, as dealing with the physical copies would be "too burdensome"
OoK64 TIL of the Ghost Camaro, a highly modified muscle car driven by a Danish Special Forces solder, used during the Bosnian war to successfully deliver much needed aid to civilians