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TIL the 80/20 Principle: 80% of your results come from 20% of the efforts, and the phenomenon is seen across all sorts of fields.

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BrwmK TIL: Bloomers, the short gym bottoms worn by Japanese girls in Anime and manga, were largely phased out IRL in favor of unisex longer-legged shorts in the 1990's after a student protest at one school over the shorts attracting "unwanted attention" spread nationally.
dPB8 TIL John Krasinski first met Matt Damon right after Matt filmed a kissing scene with Emily Blunt, John’s wife. Matt’s first words to John were “Hey man. I was just totally tonguing your girl.” They are now good friends.
Zjm4 TIL that the 2006 film The Ghost and The Darkness, about man-eating lions, was based on the real Tsavo Maneaters - two lions that killed 135 people in 1898.
xlGD TIL the most shoplifted food in the world is cheese.
oB5yW TIL prosecuter Vincent Bugliosi admitted he used a DA investigator to stalk his former milk man, believing him to have slept with Bugliosi's wife. Instead of being fired, Bugliosi was given the Tate-LaBianca murder case.