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TIL: Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that does not touch the Canadian province of Ontario, and Lake Ontario is the only Great Lake that does not touch the U.S. state of Michigan.

16JYX TIL: In 2019, Konami added a new official rule to Yu Gi Oh tournaments, the Hygiene clause where you would be disqualified if you smell bad or wear dirty clothing as it produces an "unpleasant" playing environment. The response was generally positive.
emVg TIL that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt couple sold the rights for the first images of their twins to People and Hello! magazines for $14 million—making them the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken. The money went to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
VM6b4 TIL that new tires have little rubber hairs on them as a byproduct of the manufacturing process and that those hairs do not have any practical purpose or benefit for the tire.
P0dE TIL that the most common hypothesis for the cause of motion sickness is that it functions as a defense mechanism against neurotoxins. When feeling motion but not seeing it or vice versa, the brain will conclude that the discordance is due to poison ingestion. It then responds by inducing vomiting.
kJO5E TIL that during the Mexican-American war, General Winfield Scott used the highly risky tactic of abandoning his supply lines and foraging for needed supplies to continue his attack. One of his staff officers, William T. Sherman, would later use this tactic in the Civil War in his March to the Sea.