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TIL Jeremy Clarkson’s love of jeans has been blamed for the decreased denim sales mid-1990s, particularly Levi’s, because of their being associated with middle aged men. This is known as the “Jeremy Clarkson Effect”

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DQgGg TIL the use of the letters Q, X and W in official documents, including for people's names, used to be illegal in Turkey and punishable with two to six months of prison time. The ban was enacted in 1928 and lifted only nine years ago in 2013
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