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TIL that flour distributors used to make their sacks more colorful during the Great Depression to help the people who often made clothes out of them remain at least somewhat fashionable.

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lMON TIL that Breaking Bad’s “Ozymandias” episode has the best overall rating of a TV episode on IMDB (more than 95% voted it a 10)
GAPv7 TIL about the Ainu, the original indigenous inhabitants of Japan
a86n9 TIL that the ancient Sumerian Gods' first attempt to create humans failed because they were too drunk. "Meanwhile in heaven, the gods were having a large, drunken banquet. They decided to create humans. The first race was made of clay, and weak in body and mind. At the time everyone was too drunk".
e0VO4 TIL The Louvre had to put up signs asking Chinese tourists not to poop on the grounds.
JY46V TIL in 1964 an icy runway caused a taxiing B-58 bomber to flop over and topple onto its fuel tanks. This ignited 14,000 gallons of blended gasoline and kerosene and barbecued the bomber’s nuclear payload…including a 9-megaton bomb powerful enough to flash fry any exposed human within 20 miles.