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TIL That most Converse sneakers have a very thin layer of felt applied to their soles, in order to legally classify them as slippers. This saves the company more than 33% in import tariffs.

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Jjjm TIL there is a marathon that only 14 out of 1000+ runners have finished, there is no published race date or website, & entry requires an essay, a fee of $1.60 and a license plate from your state.
GYM9E TIL about the Milford massacre. 52 European settlers of Milford, MN were killed in 1 day by a band of Dakota Sioux.
6WjJ TIL there was a man in 1987 named Kenneth Parks who was acquitted of murder and attempted murder because he was sleepwalking
kOJwE In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Paula Kahumbu explains how elephants' surprising fear of bees is actually helping to protect them.
jNQ8N TIL that one of the findings of the Kinsey Scale study was that men trended towards homosexuality more so than women, contrary to the perception that women were more homosexually inclined. Kinsey speculated that this perception was a product of "wishful thinking" on the part of heterosexual men.