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TIL the medical name for a butt crack is “intergluteal cleft”

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W45X TIL that some Cuban cigar factories employed a “Lector” who would read newspapers, political treatises and classical literature aloud to help break the monotony of the cigar-rollers’ work, thus even illiterate cigar-rollers would be well-informed and familiar with great literature.
5VN8n TIL that Sweden required bars and clubs to get a dance permit for people to legally dance, permits were introduced as a way to prevent public disorder which led to riots. In 2016, Sweden voted to end the rule that made bars get a license for dancing a law that dated back to the 1970s.
6EEPw TIL that there is a Capability Im-Maturity Model, a classification for software organizations who don't measure up to CMM Level 1
OoaK7 TIL That before World War II, Thanksgiving was basically Halloween - poor people begged door-to-door, so rich people wore tattered costumes and did the same.
JYXb4 TIL Vasily Arkhipov was the sole officer aboard a submarine who refused to authorize a nuclear strike, presumably saving the world from nuclear destruction during the cold war.