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TIL You aren’t supposed to wear white after Labor Day due to an old fashion rule made by rich women to separate “Old Money” people from “New Money” people.

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08QN TIL a 2005 article from Der Spiegel quoting Fouad Hussein predicts the future regarding the Islamic State in an eerily accurate way: “An Islamic Caliphate in Seven Easy Steps” We’re currently at phase 5 and right on schedule.
rRkj4 TIL There is an endangered 6-foot long earthworm which is so big that you can actually hear from above ground as it moves through its subterranean burrows
9Ymbm TIL about Operation Pluto, an operation to lay submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel in support of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII. The two pipelines, "Bambi" and "Dumbo", carried 180 million imperial gallons of petrol to the Allied Expeditionary Force in North West Europe.
v1wMx TIL that CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and stepped in to perform emergency surgery on US soldiers and Iraqi civilians while reporting on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and on a 12 year old Haitian girl while reporting in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
4kJ1g TIL there is an archipelago just off the coast of Canada that is a French overseas territory. Its inhabitants are French and EU citizens.