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TIL: Retail stores use skinny mirrors to boost dress sales

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5V5ZD TIL of small medieval knife called ‘Bollock dagger’ and used to stab people in the kidneys
4XBMg TIL Bill Gates succeeded in his mission to build a Toilet to help combat the sanitary crisis across multiple parts of Africa and India. Costing $350, its powered by worms, and doesnt require to be hooked up to a sewer system.
w5OP TIL that Ben Franklin, after conceiving an illegitimate son, advocated sexual affairs with older women, claiming that “it is less sinful to have sex with an older woman than to debauch a virgin.”
5DLp TIL Steve Job’s Cancer was very treatable, But he wanted to fight it naturally and it killed him…
newQo TIL that Great Britain once had a Cones Hotline for people to report rogue traffic cones. The Cones Hotline was launched in 1992 for citizens to report traffic cones on the road for no obvious reason. The policy was mocked for both being comically pointless and for being a waste of government money.