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TIL: Kobe Bryant is mostly responsible for the fall of high top basketball sneakers. Raised in Italy, Kobe noticed that soccer players play in a fairly similar way to basketball player. Kobe told Nike point-blank, 'I want the lowest, lightest-weight basketball shoe ever’.

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MevVV Today I learned global company Unilever "makes and sells products under more than 1,000 brand names worldwide. Two billion people use them on any given day." Some of their brands include Dove, Klondike, Hellman's, Lipton, Magnum, Ben and Jerry's, Axe, Q-tips, St. Ives, Popsicle, and Vaseline.
mxdEp TIL since Japanese honeybees don't have big enough stingers to pierce giant hornet exoskeletons, they instead attack by swarming them in "hot bee balls" and cooking them to death. The friction of the buzzing bees can reach 117° F / 47° C at the core of the bee ball.
w1gP TIL East St. Louis, IL has a higher murder rate than Gary IN, New Orleans LA, Baltimore MD, Detroit MI, and in 2014 the murder rate surpassed that of Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world. In 2016 rankings showed it had the highest murder rate of any city in the U.S.
vPPXx TIL: Joachim von Ribbentropp, the Nazi ambassador to the United Kingdom, once almost knocked the king over by giving him a Nazi salute instead of a handshake
BgJkr TIL the song "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" was intended to be recorded once with a stutter and sent as a joke to the lead singer's brother. Initially used to set up the band's equipment properly, the song was only added to the record because the eight tracks they had lacked the "magic".