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TIL The BBC News channel has a show dedicated to viewers criticising how well they have reported the weeks events

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6l4Z TIL a professor in France carried out a 15-year study of 330 women’s breasts, measuring and examining their breasts to study the effects of living without the support of a bra. His conclusion is that a bra is useless.
OopJ7 TIL Janis Joplin was bullied by former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson in high school. Even in a 1992 interview, 22 years after Janis’ death, he couldn’t stop bragging about it as he implied groping her: ‘… she never wore any panties… from what I understood’
bmkE TIL a French mountaineer found a 47-year-old treasure at Mont Blanc worth $341,300 and returned it because he “didn’t want to keep something that belonged to someone who’d died.”
GY7eQ TIL John Dillinger wrote Henry Ford a letter thanking him "for building the Ford V-8 as fast and as sturdy as you did" after using to evade a police in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
6EReW TIL The deep-dish pizza was invented in 1943 when someone at the small pizza shop Pizzeria Uno in Illinois decided to make a pizza using a cake mold.