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TIL Victoria's Secret bras have RFID tracking technology in them, so they can collect information on you as you wear them for their own marketing analysis.

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welY TIL facial expressions are a very important part of sign language. Certain mouth and eye movements serve as adjectival or adverbial modifiers.
YE1W TIL “SOS” does not actually stand for anything; “save our souls” or “save our ships” are just simply misinterpreted backronyms. SOS was simply chosen for its convenient communication.
GoY1 TIL Japanese do not call atomic bomb explosions “mushroom clouds”, they call them “pillar of fire” - because that was how they saw and experienced it.
DQvbj TIL Stalin, towards the end of his life, routinely forced the politburo to get incredibly drunk. His compulsory dinners featured forced drinking games, such as guessing the temperature and taking a shot of vodka for each degree off.
nWoYW TIL about Pokémon's Porygon episode which featured a series of rapidly alternating red and blue frames that provoked epileptic seizures in hundreds of children (685 viewers – 310 boys and 375 girls). As a result of the incident, the Pokémon anime went into a four-month hiatus.