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TIL: Levi’s uses a blank tab on 10% of its products to protect its trademark of the tab shape.

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ANpk7 TIL On october 5, 2022, in Idaho, USA, David Rush managed to hold and light 150 candles simultaneously in his mouth. David had previously held this record title. He reclaimed it at the Discovery Center of Idaho Science Center to promote STEM education
Eg9dX TIL of the Euphemistic Treadmill whereby euphemisms, which were originally the polite term (such as STD to refer to Venereal Disease) become themselves pejorative over time.
dEad TIL: 28 States have banned texting while driving. 22 of them offer traffic updates via twitter.
VMQ7Z TIL The window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house. To avoid the tax some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up window-spaces . In England and Wales it was introduced in 1696 and was repealed in 1851, France and Scotland also had window taxes.
rAVM TIL there’s an Indie company making Battlefront 3 using the CryEngine 3.