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

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yQXWJ TIL Once you've messed with time travel enough you get an NDA regarding time travel but mentioning NDA isn't covered under the NDA. "The wolf shall lay with the lamb"
v18ER Today I learned that the math, and human biology, behind listening to either analog or digital music, favors analog.
E1pB7 TIL "yé-yé" was a music genre which emerged in the 1960s. Its name was derived from the English "yeah! yeah!", popularised by beat and rock and roll bands such as the Beatles.
Ooyke TIL: "Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day" was actually a line created by Kelloggs to help sell their new cereal.
DmvP TIL that at midnight on Dec 30th, 1899, a ship positioned itself at the intersection of the date line and equator, such that the bow and stern occupied different seasons, hemispheres, days, years, and centuries. For the ship, Dec 31st never occurred.