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TIL Levi Strauss has a pair of jeans from 1879 in their archive, the oldest surviving pair in existence

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GYZEQ TIL of the Powell Memorandum. A confidential memorandum entitled "The Attack on the American Free Enterprise System". It kickstarted a concerted effort to shift US opinion to the right and started a massive PR campaign to persuade Americans that the 'left' was bad for the average American.
nWj1o TIL the term "fairy tale" was coined by Marie Catherine d’Aulnoy to describe a collection of stories she wrote released in 1697-98.
4k8nw TIL: Migraines are 3 times more common in women than in men.
JYPxQ TIL Gary Gygax's wife was convinced he was having an affair so she followed him to a dimly lit basement and burst into the room only to find him and his friends hunched over hand-drawn maps. Gary would go on to invent the role-playing game "Dungeons and Dragons".
R7Lw TIL Karl Marx’s son-in-law wrote a book entitled “The Right To Be Lazy”