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TIL The Red Cross once warned Blink 182 to edit album artwork “or they would be in violation of the Geneva Convention”

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PYA5n TIL that all every Rolls Royce pinstripe is painted by a man who used to be an old English village sign painter. It's the last manufacturing step and can't afford mistakes as the paint instantly bonds with the car body and cannot be erased.
PxOE TIL that some people use live pigs to practice tattooing on. After the pigs die, one man sells their tattooed skin.
pWRG TIL that compared with the 1960s, U.S. women have in 2000s spent two to three hours longer in labor, according to researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, who said the findings suggest doctors may need to rethink the definition of “normal” labor
lobpK TIL That Medival Europeans thought that a brownstone supposedly found in old toads heads could cure almost any poison and the stones were often made into highly prized jewelry. These stones were in fact fossils dating from the Jurassic/Cretaceous period and had no curative properties.
J1Y8j TIL that Kmart is actually still VERY alive and well in Australia and NZ. They use the old, old logo and must not be affiliated with Sears/Kmart in US, and apparently do very well.