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TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn't sew or replace buttons.

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XEoPE TIL: One of the things that initiated the downfall of Harvard educated money launderer Franklin Jurado was his neighbor in Luxembourg filing a noise complaint against him, because Jurado had a money-counting machine running all night
PYXrO TIL Lysol was advertised as a method of birth control (via douching), leading to several deaths
Bndy TIL there is a hotel in Japan that opened in 705 AD and has been operated by 52 generations of the same family to this day
b6rjZ TIL it seems that the Pythagorean theorem was already known before Pythagoras lived. In fact, it's used in a proof on a Babylonian clay tablet that's about 1,200 years older than Pythagoras.
OaDY TIL that in 1917 a man named H.L. Mencken, in an effort to prove the gullibility of Americans, published a completely fabricated history of the invention of the bathtub, using random facts, dates, and names. Even today, some of the facts from his story are cited in publications.