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TIL Some shoe companies will sell shoes with “fuzzy bottoms/soles” (think inexpensive shoes sold at places like Walmart, Target, etc) because they can legally classify them as “slippers” changing import tariff from 37.5% to just 3% despite them clearly being sneakers

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AmMa TIL Adam Rainer is the only person in history to be categorized as both a dwarf and a giant in his lifetime. At age 21 he measured 3 feet 10.5 inches. By age 32 he measured 7 feet 2 inches tall.
KmRa TIL that Wendy’s and Arby’s were the same company from 2008-2011
D1dDj TIL that when chimpanzees were given opportunity to watch TV, their favorite was the Playboy Channel
Abgg TIL Nintendo actually bred its own type of flower to market their series “Pikmin”. This flower the Chaenostoma cordatum also known as the bacopa cabana is also called the “Pikmin flower” for that reason.
Jgj TIL that a town in the UK, Berwick-upon-Tweed, was still technically at war with Russia until 1966 when a Russian diplomat and the Mayor signed a peace treaty. The Mayor told the diplomat: “You can tell the Russian people that they can now sleep peacefully in their beds”.