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TIL Putting socks on before underpants in the morning reduces chance of jock itch, as it is often caused by transfer of athlete’s foot (tinea).

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aLMJ TIL the reason cats flex (also called kneading) their claws when sitting on your lap is due to a behavior from when it was a kitten. The kitten has to flex its claws around the mothers nipple in order to get it to start lactating. In adulthood its just re triggered from being nurtured
XENd8 TIL that PEZ candy was invented in Austria, and the three letters are the first, middle and last letters of PffeffErminZ, the German/Austrian word for peppermint.
D1vpg TIL that in 1969, Candid Camera host Allen Funt was on a plane that was hijacked by two men demanding passage to Cuba. The passengers, having spotted Funt, believed the situation to be a hidden camera prank. He could not convince them otherwise until the plane actually landed in Cuba.
eV7n TIL at the shooting championships in Kuwait last year, Kazakhstan won a gold medal and Borat’s Kazakhstan National Anthem was played at the ceremony
yaOa TIL: George Lucas wants to build affordable housing on his land because ‘we’ve got enough millionaires’