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TIL that the proper way to use a bobby pin is with the ridges facing down - flat side up.

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16l8P TIL that Keanu Reeves runs a private charitable foundation to fund cancer research and children’s hospitals. In 2009, he told Ladies Home Journal: "I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."
VJR0 TIL that taller people make bigger salaries. Approx $789 a year per inch
1aK1V TIL the Guillotine remained the official capital punishment of France until 1981, the last beheading occuring in 1977
gMy08 TIL after a passenger airline was shot down after accidentally entering Soviet airspace, President Ronald Reagan decided to authorize the U.S. military’s satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) for civilian use in order to prevent similar tragedies.
0dwoy TIL in 2017 fitness app Strava published a map showing every single activity ever uploaded to it, inadvertently revealing sensitive information about locations and layouts of military bases.