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TIL Whalebone corsets were not made of bone, but of baleen, a whale's filter plate.

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m1L6P TIL about Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a woman misidentified as ‘Tokyo Rose’ and the only American citizen to be convicted of and pardoned for the crime of treason against the United States of America.
Y7DPW TIL in 1957, the US tested an atomic bomb in the Nevada desert that produced a mushroom cloud visible from Las Vegas, 65 miles away.
Oooa1 TIL that 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd was banned in South Africa in 1980 after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the apartheid regime.
XEVbk TIL speed limits are sometimes for air quality reasons
b6Wl0 TIL millipedes are not entirely harmless. They secrete a fluid that contains poisonous toxins to the human skin and can cause chemical burns when handled with bare hands.