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TIL the actual truth behind the fashion industry

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M8Xm TIL there are at least 7 people alive today who could claim the title of King of Jerusalem.
69KRw TIL How fitting a square peg in a round hole saved the crew of Apollo 13. The lunar module didn’t have enough CO2 scrubbers to return to Earth and the command module’s scrubbers were square and didn’t fit in the lunar module’s round outlets. A filter was made with plastic bags, cardboard, and tape.
oBYX8 TIL that Windows XP's infamous "Space Cadet Pinball" was the demo version of game called "Full Tilt! Pinball" released in 1995
GYa0E TIL that the pipe organ is more than 1000 years older than the piano, which means someone thought it was smarter to build a whole cathedral around a single instrument than just build a new instrument.
gZNX TIL During the second World War, pharmaceutical giant Bayer used slave labour and even bought slaves from Auschwitz to use a human guinea pigs for new drugs.