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TIL that metal eyelets allowed for corsets to be tightened further than before in Victorian England. So much so it would displace organs.

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D1rev TIL Argentina invaded the British island of Southern Thule in 1976, but it is so remote that it wasn't announced in the press until a year later. The island was taken back in 1982, but 6 months later an Argentine flag appeared on the island again. The British removed it and destroyed all buildings.
R5R5a TIL; Actress Liv' Tyler (Who played the elf Arwen in LOTRs from age 20 to 27) - Did not know Steven Tyler was her father until she was 10, she even met him at age 8, and had a "crush" on him, before she actually confronted her mother and learned he was her father.
wo6RW TIL you can get killed from fermented food (by a bacterium that contaminates it)
N7D0e TIL That Poland and Japan were allied before and during world war 2, and despite being at war with one another remained cooperative
J1K8V TIL of the Samoan crisis, in which the US, British and German navies were in a standoff over the control of Samoa. That standoff only ended when the 1889 Apia cyclone wrecked the US and German fleets, with only the British corvette, HMS Calliope, surviving the storm.