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TIL that zippers are the leading cause of penile injuries
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TIL When Eli Wallach arrived in Madrid, Spain, all of the hotels were full. Clint Eastwood invited him to sleep over at a friend's house, and they shared the same bed. Wallach's wife Anne Jackson told him he could boast that he was the only man to sleep with Clint Eastwood.
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TIL that the Michelin Man is white is because rubber tires are naturally white. It wasn't until 1912 that companies started mixing carbon chemicals with the rubber to make black tires. This process is not an aesthetic change, but a structural one, making the tires stronger and durable.
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TIL after India, the state of Texas now has the world's second-largest tiger population
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TIL that Princeton students did vastly better on a series of “trick” math questions when the questions were printed in a small font and a washed-out gray print. The difficulty of reading the questions slowed them down enough to make them think carefully about the answers.
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TIL about Goose Pulling, where people would tie a goose upside down and grease its neck, then ride past it and try to pull its head off.