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TIL hairdresser Christina M. Jenkins invented the hair weave for African American women in the 1940s.

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1aN68 TIL the patch on the back of your jeans with the brand is called a Jacron. They were originally made of genuine leather and created to stamp out (pun intended) counterfeit jeans in the late 1800s.
pRMZ TIL on the first splashdown by a Soviet crew, the Soyuz capsule landed in the middle of blizzard ,punched through a frozen lake, went fully underwater and the lake above them froze over partially requiring an intense rescue operation lasting 9 hours under −22 °C.
J1gp1 TIL: In China, to "expel smoke from the seven orifices" is an idiom that means to be extremely angry.
e0ek5 TIL: During WW2 black U.S soldiers stationed in England were drinking in a pub with local people when U.S Military police arrived to stop them getting served and arrest them for not segregating. The white local people in the pub defended the black men, which eventually led to a riot and gunshots.
5YBK8 TIL about Centerbe (italian for "one hundred herbs"), a liqueur made by aromatic herbs obtained of about one hundred species of wild mountain herbs, expertly selected and collected on the slopes of the Abruzzo mountains,according to an ancient Benedictine recipe.