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TIL Most all road signs in the US are made by prison inmates

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5VQP8 TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice.
BDGe TIL Rapper Juicy J put up $50,000.00 of his own money towards a scholarship to the winner of a twerk competition based on one of his songs called “Scholarships.” The winner of the contest did not twerk to win but instead read the fine print.
9Rwr TIL former dictator of Equatorial Guinea Francisco Macias Nguema banned the use of lubricants in Malabo city power plant, saying he could run it using magic. The plant exploded.
vJgL TIL that Tipperary Hill, NY has a traffic light with the lights upside down - the historically Irish residents kept smashing the light that had “British” red above “Irish” green, so it was changed.
oBKwA TIL during WWII, Russian soldiers took “heat pills” that kept them warm in the winter; however, they would also lose weight despite eating well. 2,4-dinitrophenol spikes metabolic rate as potential energy is lost as heat—it is banned as a weight loss aid (U.S.) as overdose can cook people to death.