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TIL Zubaz, the popular 1990's zebra-stripe pattern pants, were originally designed for hardcore weightlifters that couldn’t find pants or shorts that comfortably fit their massive thighs

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KO9v4 TIL that dogs evolved the specific muscles that give them the ability to raise their inner eyebrows more than 33,000 years ago; as they became domesticated. It's an evolutionary trick used to manipulate humans.
rRZNy TIL Frank Sinatra was an avid supporter of civil rights. He was a generous financial supporter of Martin Luther King Jr, and was recruited by him to join the civil rights marches in the south. He would go on to receive a lifetime award from the NAACP.
nebBG TIL the brain is wired to view death as something that only happens to other people. It's a defense mechanism to avoid existential fear.
ylnw TIL That the Jaguar is in fact native to North American and there is still a population of these cats living in southern Arizona and New Mexico
JYlW1 TIL the “my phone is listening in on me” meme is not entirely baseless: Study's findings suggest that eavesdropping activity would not be detected by current security mechanisms. Not only microphones, but also seemingly harmless motion sensors are a potential eavesdropping channel in smartphones.