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TIL that swimmers who take up synchronized swimming are not allowed to shave their legs because the hairs on their legs help them feel the water line more accurately when doing routines.

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64jZ TIL after X-raying a prayer book from the 13th century scientists discovered the pages had readable traces of an unknown work by Archimedes. The remarkable work book contained treatises on infinity written 2,000 years before anyone else thought up the concept.
ANOWx TIL Judaism is is the second most-practiced religion practiced in New York City and has a larger Jewish population than the combined totals of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
4Xrpa TIL Frito-Lay launched WOW fat-free potato chips in 1998 containing Olestra which caused "abdominal cramping, diarrhea, fecal incontinence ["anal leakage"], and other gastrointestinal symptoms". Warning on package "This Product Contains Olestra. Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stool”
nQ1B TIL that Walt Disney created multiple fake companies (like M.T. Lott Real Estate) to buy Florida land in the 1960s. This let him acquire what is now Disney World while avoiding suspicion and keeping prices low. The stores on Main Street shop windows are the names of those original companies.
emlb TIL after the Battle of Kalka River, Genghis Khan had large wooden boards constructed, placing 6 Russian princes underneath them. Khan and his generals ate and drank to their victory, crushing their prisoners to death as they feasted.