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TIL that Marlin Brando popularised wearing t-shirts as an outfit from his role in A Streetcar Named Desire. Before then it was commonplace to wear a t-shirt as an undergarment.

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edVL TIL:When railway tycoon George Pullman died in 1897, his family was so afraid that his corpse would be desecrated by employees, they buried him at night in a pit 8 feet deep, encased in floors and walls of steel-reinforced concrete in a lead-lined casket covered in layers of asphalt and steel rails.
NXgw1 TIL Hangovers cost the U.S. economy an estimated $220 billion in lost productivity every year.
9Y9X6 TIL the Canadian Medical Association voted in support of a ban of Mixed Martial Arts in Canada. They argued from a physician responsibility standpoint they could not overlook activities which cause injury and trauma to Canadians. They had previously come out against Boxing for similar reasons.
1a06O TIL: Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest ape ever recorded. The first fossils were discovered after being on sale in a pharmacist in Hong Kong, listed as, "dragon bones/teeth". It's estimated that they weighed between 300 - 500kg and reached 3m in height.
8krK TIL student loans have hit a record high of $1.2 trillion in the United States