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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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QJ81E TIL that the entomologist Justin O. Schmidt created the ''Schmidt sting pain index''. This scale rates the pain from stings of ants, wasps and bees. While getting stung by a warrior wasp, he told to himself: ''Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?''.
jNMlM TIL: Israel is considered a global leader in medical cannabis research and innovation, ctizens caught using cannabis in public cannot be arrested but may face fines, with the money collected from these fines going to education and rehabilitation programs
wLy7Y TIL The German word "Hamsterkäufe" is a behaviour, where people accumulate food and supplies to prepare for shortages, thus often creating the shortages in the first place.
xMDB TIL Sir Winston Churchill is an Honorary citizen of the US, the first to be one non-posthumously
pYLb TIL that gunnery sergeant R. Lee Ermey was originally meant to be the technical supervisor for Full Metal Jacket. He pretended to be gunnery sergeant Hartman while interviewing extras and had the interviews filmed. When Stanley Kubrick saw the video he gave Ermey the part.