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TIL that last year, Israel passes law banning use of underweight models…revolutionary for the fashion industry

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9Y0lr TIL Hummingbirds build their nests with dandelion seeds and spiderweb.
JVRQ TIL of Planned obsolescence, a manufacturing decision by a company to make consumer products in such a way that they become out-of-date or useless within a known time period so that consumers are forced to buy a product multiple times rather than just once.
4nVR TIL in 1969, a store manager in Sydney, Australia was arrested by a Vice Squad for displaying a poster image of Michelangelo’s masterpiece David because the statue depicts David nude.
GlBg TIL that the white guy from the iconic 1968 Olympic Black Power salute was shunned by his home country, Australia, and wasn’t even allowed to participate at the 2000 Sydney Games
jNnAn TIL around 140000 men were convicted under Paragraph 175, a law in German Criminal Code penalising homosexuality that lasted from 1871 to... 1994. Also, "criminals" that were in Nazi camps due to their homosexuality, weren't released from camps after liberation and their "sentence" were still valid.