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TIL fedoras were originally a fashionable piece of clothing for women’s rights activists

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Lk4B0 TIL that almost 90% of "Indian" restaurants in the UK are actually Bangladeshi
JrxB TIL pilots have to wait 6 hours after taking Viagra to fly because it can affect blue/green colour differentiation, interfering with their ability to interpret cockpit instruments and runway lights.
LkgEQ TIL that you technically COULD stop a hurricane by shooting at it, if you had ~5000 machine guns firing constantly into the wind for 24 hours straight.
0wyPL TIL: "heavy metal" music's origin began with the songwriter getting a Ford Falcon
ne069 TIL of Southeastern Provisions, a slaughterhouse in which its owner was reported for weekly deposits of $100K for in-cash-payroll. Many workers were undocumented and not paid for overtime. After a undercover operation, the IRS and ICE raided the site in one of the largest raids in US history.