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TIL that Prada is going to design NASA’s new Moon suit

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D6Zg TIL that Everton FC’s store in its home city centre, Liverpool One, is named Everton Two; thus resulting in the full address of “Everton Two Liverpool One”.
Rm99 TIL: Coach Stan Van Gundy was fined for saying NBA shouldn’t be playing games on Christmas Day
6AWw TIL: The Japanese developed an electric car in 1949 that could travel 200km on a single charge.
woPEP TIL Greeks put up protective magic hermai - stone block bearded male heads with genitals "at the appropriate height" - marked crossings, boundaries, outside houses and at public buildings, and were also signposts with distances. Outside Athenian homes hermai were rubbed with olive oil for good luck.
9P1M TIL Steve McQueen when he would sign up for a movie, would demand from the studio bulk amounts of jeans, electric razors, and other men’s things, so that he could donate them to the boy’s reformatory school he spent his teenage years in.