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TIL High heels were originally worn by men. Heels on boots first started showing up in the 10th century because they helped horse riders keep their feet in their stirrups.

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ANAWB TIL scientists discovered lipopeptides that kill microbes so efficiently they named them after Keanu Reeves. Just as Keanu was extremely deadly he was in his films, ‘keanumycins’ are devastating to human-pathogenic fungi and plant fungal diseases.
nWBPP TIL while filming the witch burning scene in Day of Wrath, director Carl Theodor Dreyer decided to leave the actress tied to a wooden ladder while the crew went for lunch. He used her genuine distress to film the scene
Zoao TIL Coal power stations are 100 times more radioactive than nuclear power plants during normal operation.
9YvDD TIL All My Life by Foo Fighters is about Dave Grohl's love of performing oral sex on women.
P1YKO TIL in 2009, 'Do You Realize' by The Flaming Lips was named Oklahoma's official Rock Song, the band was later accused of Communist sympathy, and the song later removed, then reinstated by Executive Order, and then removed again in 2013.