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TIL women (and only women) used to be banned from smoking in public.

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Zp5lp TIL that the Champs-Élysées is not just a "busy street", but a name derived from the Greek mythological concept of the Elysian Fields; Champs= fields + Élysées=Elysian (Palace), so it is literally just the farm out the back of the Elysian Palace and the road came later.
yDg8 TIL Museums make you happier and less lonely, studies find
kJwa1 TIL that the T.V. show Archer had to re-name the characters' employer. At the start of the series the characters worked for "the International Secret Intelligence Service" (prominently called I.S.I.S. for short). When the Iraq occupation ended real world events gave the name an unwanted connotation.
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X0LA6 TIL that the first 35 NASA space shuttle astronauts were nicknamed TFNG. The official meaning was "Thirty-Five New Guys", but the real meaning was "The Fucking New Guy", military slang for newcomers to a unit.