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TIL that moisturizers don’t actually moisturize your skin, but merely prevent your skin from losing more hydration. There’s also a technical difference between creams, ointments, and lotions.

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WklrB TIL that despite being one of the best-selling groups in all of human history, the members of ABBA estimate the band played less than 100 shows during their entire career.
vxXB TIL ‘Meritocracy’ was the system of government described in a 1958 satirical essay about a future British dystopia. It was meant to be a warning.
9nNp TIL that Under Armour, an American company, uses a non-American spelling of “armour” (with a “u”) not because it has ties to somewhere like the UK or Canada but because the founder was “trying to get a cool toll-free phone number.”
VMB9G TIL just after the big bang there was a giant cold spot in the universe which cannot be explained, but may have been caused by our universe colliding with another.
0b95 TIL that James Franco launched a college course entitled “Master Class: Editing James Franco…with James Franco,” in which student editors are to compile a 30 minute documentary on Franco, using behind the scenes footage of Franco supplied by Franco, to “create a cinematic image of James Franco.”