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TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

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j6JLv TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered.
WkZlY TIL Spacex offered all the residents of Boca Chica, Texas a buyout so they could increase the size of rockets being launched in their municipality.
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