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l7O6V TIL of The Peculiar Flapper Fad of Rouged and Decorated Knees
0ddGN TIL that the Feeling of "impending doom" is an official symptom of a Wrong blood type Transfusion. (ABO incompatibility)
8ad1V TIL Whang-Od is a 104 year old tattoo artist from a remote Philippines tribe and has been tattooing since the age of 15 years old. She is still tattooing today but she only does her signature “3 dots” tattoo.
OgBX TIL a Dutch woman called her ex-boyfriend 65,000 times in one year.
woG8M TIL that the Romans were among the first to introduce a standardized system of measuring time through hours. But they didn't have a fixed hour duration throughout the entire year. Instead, they adjusted the length of an hour based on the length of daylight. A winter hr was shorter than a summer hr.