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TIL that the word "sabotage" comes from the French word for clog; "sabot". When looms were industrialised, redundant workers would throw their clogs into the machinery and this became known as sabotage. It is theorised that this is also the origin of the phrase "clogged up".

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dDMpd TIL that Pizza Hut once created a perfume with the scent of freshly baked pizza dough. Strangely enough, Burger King also has a perfume called "The Flame by BK," a men's body spray described as combining "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat."
Wbw8 TIL that there is a tiny spider that builds large, fake spiders in their web out of debris to serve as decoys.
Eg4M7 Today I learned: Your heart isn't actually located on the left side of your chest but rather in the center with a marginal lean to the left.
Br1Or TIL on Valentine’s day in Japan, women give their male co-workers chocolate. Unpopular co-workers receive cheap giri-choko(“ultra-obligatory” chocolate) while others receive honmei-choko (“true feeling chocolate”).
pYGKb TIL one of the first use of avant-garde technique of tape manipulation in music was the 1955 hit "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs. Using a razor, Carl Weismann cut, then spliced sounds of dog barks together, correcting speed, pitch and melody of the resulting tape. It reached #22 on Billboard.