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TIL native americans were the first people to turn raccoon body parts into hats and european pioneers copied the fashion

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BK1d TIL a “fag” was a younger schoolboy who was a personal “servant” to an older schoolboy in a private school. They practiced “fagging” and a senior fag was a “fag-master”
16Xvd TIL that the word GORILLA is linked to "extreme hairy (African) woman" in Ancient times: 500 BC - Hanno the Navigagators translators told him those are "GORILLAI"... read by yourself
n5Jo TIL of leaked documents that show evidence of govenment agents using social media (such as reddit) to manipulate public perception.
OGVgR TIL the creator of Microsoft DirectX said that the "radiation" logo and the internal name "The Manhattan Project" was an intentional reference to atomic bombs, since they wanted to dethrone the Japanese from their dominance of the video game industry
mx7RP TIL Don Featherstone, creator of the famous plastic Pink Garden Flamingo, also wore matching outfits with his wife every single day for 35 years