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TIL during the Great Depression people often made clothes out of feed sacks. Seeing this, distributors started to print their feed sacks with different colours and patterns to help people remain at least somewhat fashionable.

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NXj8b TIL about Ans van Dijk, a Dutch Jewish woman who collaborated with the Nazis and whose actions are believed to have caused the deaths of 84 to 700 people.
ypde TIL that it is cheaper to buy and resell a textbook than rent one
yQYYM TIL After Marvin Gaye recorded “What’s Going On” with two Detroit Lions players, he tried to join the team as a wide receiver even though he had never played football. Head Coach Joe Schmidt declined, believing he’d be too much of a moving target.
Mlv0 Today I learned that in 1983, Russian Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov heroically prevented a full retaliatory nuclear attack against the United States and NATO allies when his Oko nuclear early warning system detected 6 missiles coming from the U.S. and he immediately declared it a false alarm.
yr1v TIL in 2009 a Russian woman was prosecuted for raping ten men, out of which nine men pressed charges, while one man said he loved it.