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TIL Carmel By The Sea, California prohibits wearing high heels over two inches in height and less than one square inch of bearing surface without first getting a permit from City Hall.

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yQeMv TIL the "blue ribbon" in the name of Pabst Blue Ribbon does not come from it winning a first place blue ribbon in any contests. It comes the fact that little blue ribbons were tied around the bottles between 1882 and 1916.
wL7rM TIL When Captain Cook returned from his first voyage he brought with him the term ‘tattoo’ if not the practice itself. While inking designs onto the skin was no new thing in 18th Century Europe, ensured much attention to this ancient art and introduced a new word, ‘tattoo’.
rJWW TIL that the Bermuda Triangle’s rate of confirmed mysterious disappearances (per area) is no higher than anywhere else in the world. The whole concept is bogus.
VBXnk TIL The Yupik people of Alaska and Siberia do not consider themselves Inuit and are ethnically different. They favor the term Yupik, Yupiit, or Eskimo. In Canada, Inuit is the preferred term, while in Greenland, they use Greenlanders or Kalaallit
7rE7p TIL that a clause that contains another clause is called a matrix clause. A clause within a clause is called a matrix clause, not inception clause. Matrix clause! SMDH