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TIL, women considered lower-caste in Kerala (India) had to pay Breast Tax (Mulakaram) for covering their breasts in public, otherwise go topless in public (until 1924)

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BnxD TIL the richest president of the United States (adjusted for inflation) was George Washington.
KBO9 TIL in 1973 NASA sent two spiders known as Arabella and Anita into space to see if the could spin a web without gravity. It took the spiders a couple days to figure out, but they eventually ended up making webs that were finer and more complex than their earth counterparts.
5YrN9 TIL Doordash subsidizes their own payment of drivers with your tip— IE if you think you tipped $5 extra, they actually used $2 to “pay” the driver.
vP8nD TIL that there are secret saunas built in the forest around the Mamquam river in BC, Canada. Provincial authorities are actively investigating and discouraging the use of these saunas because multiple people have been injured trying to access them
ZZZv TIL it is legal to discriminate based on sexual orientation in Tennessee (and some other states)