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TIL the Zoot Suit is still illegal in Los Angeles

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oBDer TIL that there used to be a BUS service between London and Calcutta in the 1960s. The double-decker bus was known as Albert and the trips covering 7957 KM in 110 days & cost £145.
vP4W4 TIL 8-10 year old boys were sometimes castrated to preserve the high prepubescent vocal range. (This practice stopped in the late 1700s)
XGlE TIL Women may be more likely than men to be bisexual, or be primarily attracted to men with some same-sex attraction, because same-sex behavior allowed women to raise their children with other women.
xV6gB TIL it is possible to coat droplets of water with silica, resulting in a dry powder known as "dry water"
x5x0 TIL that an analysis of Justin Bieber’s Twitter followers found that around 50 percent of them are probably fake. The criteria for determining if an account was fake included whether it was used to tweet phrases such as “diet,” “make money” and “work from home.”