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TIL that fashion and style aficionados look for collar gaps on your clothes to tell if you get your clothes tailored or not.

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nkNd TIL the Olympic event that could have been: in the 1908 Summer Games, pistol dueling was a sport. Contestants used wax bullets and metal masks for safety.
16ArV TIL after a Jewish six-year-old was taken away from his parents by priests, people involved tried to avoid returning him by publicly claiming the child had learned the catechism perfectly within a few days & was claiming "I am baptized and my father is the Pope."
kO07E TIL that CNN has a tape recorded to broadcast as the end of the world is happening
O5j6 TIL: The characters in the animated series Archer are modeled after real people.
wLB78 TIL when your immune system fights an infection, it cranks up the mutation rate during antibody production by a factor of 1,000,000, and then has them compete with each other. This natural selection process creates highly specific antibodies for the virus.