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TIL that 0.1 percent of your shirt ends up in your belly button annually.

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5wY8 TIL that the series finale for Breaking Bad is titled “Felina”, being an anagram of “finale” and also because it can be broken into Fe, Li and Na (Iron, Lithium and Sodium); elements commonly found in blood, meth and tears respectively
exDb TIL that the world’s longest traffic jam occurred in China in 2010 and it lasted for over ten days. At its worst, cars were moving at speeds of around 1km (0.6 miles) per day.
Z8NoD TIL The founders of Samsung and LG, Lee and Koo, were close friends since elementary school. In 1968, Lee met Koo and told him that Samsung was planning to enter electronics, which meant becoming LG's direct competitor. Angered, Koo yelled at him and left. Afterwards, the two were never close again.
Q1Nd TIL that there’s a variation of The Three Wise Monkeys, the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” monkeys covering their eyes, ears, and mouth(???). The variation contains a fourth monkey who covers its genitals to represent “do no evil”
Me1GB TIL that growing up, Samuel L Jackson has a bad stutter, which got him into acting so he could ‘pretend to be someone who doesn’t stutter’ and he also at this time started to use ‘motherfucker’ as an affirmation word to help keep from stuttering.