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TIL A ‘School of Undressing’ was founded for women in 1937, in the belief that ‘poor technique’ was driving up divorce rates.

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M7xNW TIL factory workers were told to clean the paintbrushes on their lips while painting the self-luminating radioactive radium dials on watches in the 1920s.
b9pQQ TIL Jayne Mansfield died in a car crash in 1967 aged 34. Her car hit a tractor, killing her instantly. After her death, the NHTSA recommended requiring an underride guard on all tractor-trailers. In America the underride guard is sometimes known as a "Mansfield bar".
d8xpB TIL The Blues Brothers with John Belushi and Dan Akroyd toured as a real band for some times, despite starting as a joke sketch on Saturday Night Live. The band opened up for the Grateful Dead in 1978.
oByM8 TIL Stomphia coccinea is a small reddish or pinkish sea anemone that has the remarkable ability to detach itself and swim away from predators when necessary. When a starfish's sensory organs touch this sea anemone, it rocks back and forth prying itself from its anchorage and escapes: see video below
7V7b TIL In 2011 an artist placed 4 frat boys in a plexi box with 30 cases of beer, a bucket, and a Sharpie