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TIL: About the Minoan Civilization (3000BC) where women walked barechested and men used skirts

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P1LQL TIL: that WD40 Literally stands for Water displacement 40th formula
5D5r TIL that the first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge was a professional high diver who “wanted to demonstrate that people did not die by simply falling through the air”. He proved himself correct by falling 135 feet safely through the air, only dying when he hit the water.
ADgmw TIL of Operation Foxley - an Allied plan to assassinate Hitler. It wasn't put into place because Hitler proved to be such a terrible strategist that the Allies decided the war would be over sooner with him in charge.
oRJnA TIL Macys said they wouldn’t appear in the movie Elf because it had a fake Santa scene
gdR4 TIL that “kummerspeck” is a German term which refers to weight gain from emotional over-eating, and is literally translated as “grief bacon”.