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TIL that up until the 1970s it was common for people to use a Foot-o-scope to x-ray their feet when shopping for shoes. The practice was discontinued once the risks to radiation were fully realized.

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GYRJ7 TIL that Waluigi's name is actually a pun. In Japanese, Warui means "bad", so combining this with Luigi gives Waluigi, whose name is literally "Luigi, but bad".
xVRvk TIL about Kim Noble, an artist with over 100 multiple personalities, over a dozen of which have highly distinctive artistic styles, such that art critics were astonished that such range of stylized renderings could come from only one person.
pG8G TIL the whoopee cushion was invented by a 14-year old Roman Emperor, who used it frequently on guests. He was assassinated by the time he was 18.
xV6r5 TIL that in early August 2017, a people smuggler off the coast of Yemen deliberately drowned at least 29 teenage migrants. The average age of the migrants was 16.
9YmlQ TIL Griselda Blanco aka The Black Widow was the first-ever billionaire female criminal, ruling her multi-billion dollar drug trafficking empire with an iron fist, and becoming one of the deadliest women of all time.