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TIL the concept of "Casual Fridays" began in Hawaii as "Aloha Fridays" as a way for the Hawaiian Fashion Guild to sell more Hawaiian clothing

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YpYXW TIL about the Atlas vampire, an unsolved murdercase in Stockholm 1932
m1rWY TIL that Phillip Morris, namesake of the company that sells Marlboro, died of lung cancer at 38.
LkX99 TIL of eight deaths related to ingesting liquid laundry packets (i.e. Tide Pods) in the U.S. between 2012 and early 2017 that have been reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, only two of the cases were actually children, with six of them being adults with dementia.
n7kY TIL John Harrison, the official taste-tester for Dreyer’s Ice Cream, has his tongue insured for $1,000,000.
R7KYa TIL elephants (and other animals) can suffer from PTSD.