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TIL broom bristles with deliberately frayed tips to better sweep fine dust are known as "flagged"

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aapo TIL Chinese water snake oil reduces inflammation due to being rich in Omega-3. In the 1800’s, Clark ‘The Rattlesnake King’ Stanley, sold ‘100% Snake Oil’. It did not actually contain any snake oil. Hence the term ‘Snake Oil Salesman’.
94DD TIL that Claims of virgin births in U.S. near 1 percent
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w59J TIL blonde hair, colorful contact lenses, and wearing tape to pretend you had a nose job is in style for young Iranian women
lol4r TIL that a treatment for rheumatism used to be to sit in the belly of a decomposing whale for 30 hours.