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TIL There is a guy who bought a Boeing 727-200 and uses it as his house.

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9eeG TIL that in 1909, dueling with wax bullets became popular. Defeated parties could be “theoretically pronounced dead… and the supposedly fatal results created general merriment.”
APVB TIL Nike made a commercial depicting a Samburu tribesman saying “Just Do it” in his native language. An American anthropologist called them out. The spoken phrase actually meant, “I don’t want these, give me big shoes.” Nike’s response: “We thought nobody in America would know what he said.”
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m1GLy TIL that before the invention of electric light, most Europeans had two phases of sleep, awakening late at night before sleeping again, called biphasic sleep