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TIL Stretch marks are also called by their technical name, striae, which are actually scars. The skin stretches so quickly that the collagen and elastic tissue are damaged, leading to the characteristic line-like appearance of the skin.

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95m6 TIL the TV special “Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos” was cancelled while it was still airing when the network’s owner called the studio and told them “Get that shit off the air!”
epK5J TIL: The 6 Mitford sisters were a famous aristocratic family heavily involved in wildly different political scenes in the 1900s. Unity was a close friend of Hitler and visited him often, Diana married the leader of British Union of Fascists, Jessica joined the American Communist Party, etc.
9wWmM TIL Analtech, the name of a U.S. based manufacturer of glass plates and other accessories, became a liability with the rise of the internet as YouTube videos promoting their products directed viewers to less than wholesome videos and clients reported being blocked by their own security protocols.
X0jkE TIL in 1745 Benjamin Franklin wrote a risqué letter, “Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress,” where he advised pursuing older women, arguing they were more grateful, better conversationalists, more experienced in bed, and that their “lower parts” aged better than their faces.
d8wvQ TIL that Gerald Ford was born as Leslie King Jr. Soon after he was born, Leslie King Sr. drew a butchers knife on his wife and baby son, prompting her to move out, divorce him and remarry a paint salesman named Gerald Ford. They then decided to give the baby his name instead.