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TIL people who didn't wear masks during the 1918 flu pandemic were called 'mask slackers', and those enforcing the rules were armed, which led to gun fights and hundreds of arrests.

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4Plo TIL There’s a 5000 year old undergorund city in Turkey the size of 16 football fields
N7Dd1 TIL Astronauts use white space suits in space as white reflects the solar radiation. However, while heading to space or coming back, they wear an orange space suit so that, if there's a malfunction and astronauts have to abandon ship, they need to be easy to spot for rescue crews.
kOW9m TIL that since Mount Rushmore is carved out of solid granite, which erodes 1 inch every 10,000 years, the basic shape of the faces will last up to 7 million years (though their noses will only last 2 million)
jNJJE TIL Kirk Douglas, at 101 years old, is one of the last surviving actors of the golden era of Hollywood
GYYnG TIL that Timothy Leary was able to get out of prison after he filled in a psych test which put him as low-risk...which he himself designed.