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TIL That stench gas alarm systems alert miners to danger when audible alarms may not be heard.

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5Yojk TIL Ann B. Davis, who later played Alice on The Brady Bunch, was the original inspiration for Pepper Potts in the Iron Man comic books. After a few issues it was decided the depiction was too obvious and the character was redesigned.
xVAK1 TIL that between 1995 and 2000, hundreds of girls in the US went through estrogen therapy that often causes serious long-term effects, to prevent them from growing taller because of perceived social harms of being “too tall”
Ygdd TIL that a customer closed his account in a bank with more than a million dollars in it after they refused to validate his 50c parking
Z9ND TIL North and South Korean armies choose their physically toughest looking soldiers to have a constant ongoing “stare down” across the Korean border to determine who is more powerful.
YpyPW TIL of Shibari, a term for erotic bondage inspired by Japanese aesthetics. This style of bondage involves tying a person up using visually intricate patterns with several pieces of thin rope, usually emphasizing the person’s physical features.