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TIL that early Romans thought that trousers were ‘effeminate’ -they much preferred their manlier tunics

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p8v8O TIL a documentary TV crew's search for exotic animals off of Australia's coast instead turned up a real-life island castaway
wxKE TIL Robin Williams performed stand-up comedy at a Seattle nightclub in 2004, 2007, and 2008 to donate all of the proceeds, totaling nearly $50K, to a local food bank without telling anyone.
mmXP TIL that if the current rate of smoking persists in China, smoking will kill 100 million of the 300 million of Chinese males now aged 0-29
xo8k TIL H.R. Giger (designer for the ‘Alien’ series) has two bars in Europe with the same amazing biomechanical design he used in the Alien movies.
e0LZE TIL that Emily Edith Smith believed she encountered Jack the Ripper in November 1892 (four years after his final victim). The girl was attacked by a strange man with a knife in Whitechapel. Smith kicked him in the groin and fled, and his description fit the Ripper's profile, but the trail went cold.