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TIL The company that made the first real spacesuits for the Apollo program only made women’s undergarments up to that point.

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8a9gV TIL: After a 1979 court case ruled the city could not be held responsible for people tripping and falling on cracked sidewalks unless the city had been previously notified of the hazard, the Trial Lawyers formed a committee to map every crack, pothole, and other hazard in the city and report them.
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0vXM TIL in 2000, Coca-Cola ran a secret campaign to teach waiters how to use “suggestive selling techniques” to offer an onslaught of alternative beverages when diners asked for water
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