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TIL The Hunt for Red October was (very loosely) based on a real story!

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ZpgjY TIL: There is a study that proves across 80 pairs of jeans that women pockets are generally half the size of men for the same brand. Only 40% of them can comfortably fit an iPhone X and only 10% can fit your entire hand. In comparison 100% of male jeans can fit either.
69mMW TIL when Sam Smith, author of The Jordan Rules (1991), initially proposed writing a book about a Chicago Bulls' season to potential publishers, there was no interest in it; he said 90% of the rejection letters were because Jordan hadn't "won anything important" and "the Bulls were irrelevant."
v14P4 TIL in 2011 a British think tank conducted a study on 450,000 followers of 14 European far-right organizations on Facebook and found that 2/3 were aged under 30 and that 3/4 were male and more likely than average to be unemployed.
KOjAR TIL in 2012, a missing foreign tourist on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.
dxGB TIL: In WW2, the US government took Aleutian natives from their island homes to internment camps, similar to those they banished Japanese Americans to. About 25% did not survive.