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TIL that because The Flash (2023) was shooting during Covid restrictions instead of shooting scenes in an American neighborhood, they instead built houses from scratch on a plot of land in the UK and then had to tear them down after filming

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69PVQ TIL that Goldfish crackers were invented by Oscar J. Kambly in 1958 in Switzerland to celebrate his wife who was a Pisces. Goldfish's original flavor was Saltine, and was originally introduced to the US in 1962 by Pepperidge Farm.
X8kR TIL the American pint is 95ml smaller than the British pint
p8wpZ TIL "breaker boys" between age 8-12 were employed to work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week to separate impurities from coal. Despite public disapproval, the practice of employing children in this line of work lasted for decades, only finally ending in the US in the 1920s.
v16rK TIL Finland has a self-care practice called pantsdrunk. It's recommended that, after coming home from work, citizens take their pants off and drink.
mZvP TIL that organized “wife swapping” was started in the 1940s on U.S. Air Force bases by fighter pilots and their wives. Researchers found it was “a kind of tribal bonding ritual, with a tacit understanding that the two thirds of husbands who survived would look after the widows.”