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TIL many companies, including Sean John, have been caught mislabeling raccoon dog fur as faux fur.

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4lAo TIL the “cheerleader effect”, the theory that girls look more attractive in groups has been scientifically proven
YJ4A TIL C.W. Post (founder of Post cereals) suffered several mental breakdowns. His doctor’s name? John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of corn flakes.
QJBr6 TIL during the apartheid era in South Africa some of the tests to decide ancestry of a person included pinching to see what language they would say "Ouch" in and putting a pencil in the subjects' hair to see if it would fall off.
WkKPY TIL Radioactive Spark Plugs were sold in the 1940s under the theory the radiation made the engine run better.
xWB5 TIL in 2003 an Ohio man was convicted for the murder of his family in California after an entomologist identified that some of the bugs caught in the radiator of his car were local to California, thus refuting the suspect’s alibi.