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TIL Harrods department store has a dress code policy. It has turned away people who it believed were not dressed appropriately. These included a soldier in uniform, a Scout troop, a woman with a mohican haircut, a 15 stone woman, and FC Shakhtar Donetsk’s first team for wearing tracksuits.

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j6oQ TIL Members of the Nation of Islam believe white people were created a few thousand years ago by an evil black scientist named Yakub
kyRE TIL in 1958, the Chinese captured a US Sidewinder missile just four days after it was introduced into combat when it got stuck in a Chinese jet during a dogfight with Taiwan aircraft. It was reverse-engineered into the Soviet AA-2 Atoll (K-13) missile and used against US planes in Vietnam.
Dbje TIL that a man planted 7,000 trees to make a guitar shaped forest as tribute to his late wife.
NX558 TIL that a controversial psychiatric technique called recovered memory therapy routinely resulted in patients imagining memories of satanic rituals contributing to the 1980s satanic panic
GYDKJ TIL There is a Nigerian floating village of nearly 100,000 people that is self-sufficient and self-policing: There's electricity, hotels, schools, and restaurants fully independent of the mainland