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TIL: The little leather diamond on the back of a backpack is called a "lash tab" or colloquially a "pig nose" and was originally for attaching an ice-axe or a bundle of rope to the pack. Now it's just because we expect it on the backpack and it's a fashion thing

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m1xWE TIL that from 1860 to 1870 winners of The (British) Open received the Challenge Belt. The Belt was red leather with a large silver buckle, with silver panels of golfing scenes and medallions denoting the winners and their scores. It was replaced by the Claret Jug in 1872.
ADAk7 TIL The ancient Romans in Pompeii had "nearly perfect teeth" because of the lack of refined sugar in their Mediterranean diets.
mRAR TIL that so many people died by ringing church bells in storms, due to the belief that it would disperse thunder, that the practice was banned by the Parlement of Paris
9YPyQ TIL the defense mechanism of the American Opossum, "Playing Dead", is an involuntary action. The opossum will seize up, evacuate bowels, and excrete "dead thing" smell from a gland
MekJb TIL That motion/car sickness is caused because your brain thinks you have been poisoned and is trying to get it out of your system.