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TIL that Marlboro cigarettes were originally designed for women. The iconic red stripe was intended to hide lipstick stains, thus making it appealing to women. When it failed to attract women, the company changed the filter color to a muted brown, slapped a cowboy on it and marketed it to men

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v10Vj TIL that there is an annual sleeping competition held in Spain. You are in a busy shopping center and judged on how fast you fall asleep, along with your snore and sleeping posture.
v1nKK TIL Only about 10% can freely control the muscle that is stretching the eardrum. "Ear rumbling" is flexing the tensor tympani muscle, that makes the same noise and vibration you sometimes get when swallowing or yawning. Some people can flex it endlessly.
NQy8 TIL Finland has the most heavy metal bands per capita in the world. While Sweden and Norway have only 27 heavy metal bands per 100.000 inhabitants, Finland boasts double as much, 54 bands per 100.000.
kJW1g TIL Not everybody experiences the itch of head lice, so not feeling itchy doesn’t mean you don’t have lice. Head lice have learned to adapt and most over-the-counter products are no longer as effective as they once were
W7QDB TIL about Juliane Koepcke. At age 17 she survived alone 11 days in a rainforest, becoming the only survivor of the LANSA 508 crash. The plane was struck by lightning & broke apart in flight scattering more than a dozen passengers. Her unorthodox education allowed her to survive the hard journey out.