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TIL The idea of frequently washing your hair only became popular in the 1970's after a big marketing push. Prior to that people washed their hair once a week or not at all.

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w1BJ TIL Pokemon was banned in Turkey, because two children tried to imitate their favorite Pokemon and fly
awoLb TIL alligators are scared of humans and it's usually safe to swim in most alligator infested waters. A 2010 report tallied all the reported alligator attacks over the 81 years from 1928 to 2009. It found there were only 24 deaths from alligators in the United States, most of them in Florida.
0dW0A TIL that firefighters in Denver need to pass a polygraph test or be disqualified from the testing process
5VXLp TIL about Camp Century, a subsurface base built below Greenland by the US in the 1950s that was powered by a mobile nuclear reactor. The base had 21 tunnels almost 2 miles in length and was designed to withstand a nuclear strike
nWWkG TIL Justice Wilson was briefly incarcerated in a debtor's prison where he continued to be a Supreme Court Justice. He was in such debt that he largely abdicated his position on the Supreme Court for the last two years of his life to flee from creditors to who he owed money.