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TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons

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gr71W TIL Feminine-named hurricanes (vs. masculine-named hurricanes) cause significantly more deaths, apparently because they lead to lower perceived risk and consequently less preparedness.
lRKV TIL Jim Carey was so terrible at basketball during the filming of Cable Guy that he could barely dribble, so he mimed basketball actions and a ball was added in post production.
R7V91 TIL Anne Frank died of a typhus epidemic that ravaged Bergen-Belsen rather than by execution.
oBR1Y "Humans are excellent at picking up patterns, even better than computers, despite recent advances in machine learning."
5YwJ8 TIL that ketchup was popular long before fresh tomatoes were. People were less hesitant to eat tomatoes as part of a highly processed product that had been cooked and infused with vinegar and spices.