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TIL for several decades shoe shops used to take x-rays of people's feet in order to make their shoes fit better.

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GYgQN TIL when firing the Germans biggest cannon in WW1, they had to move 300 yards away and fire it electrically. They were still so close they required cotton wadding in their eyes, nose and ears, and fired it with their mouth open to prevent the gun from blowing out their ear drums.
N7mKE TIL about the Incroyables and Merveilleuses: Aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution who created a macabre and decadent subculture and "greeted one another with violent movements of the head as if in decapitation"
78PkZ Today I learned to keep typing on computers with my back straight and feet flat on the ground using a nice posture since it can cause long-term health issues if you are not sitting properly.
OGQYR TIL that cows who listen to classical music produce more milk
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