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TIL that the red, white, and blue stripes on a barbers pole represent arterial blood, bandages, and venous blood respectively. This is due to the fact that barbers used to perform minor surgeries as well as grooming services.

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NX7v1 TIL that when a British person is eating a flapjack, they are essentially eating heavily sweetened granola bars. In America, flapjacks is just another word for pancakes.
P1L5V TIL that Rickey Henderson was so proud of earning a million dollar signing bonus that he had the check framed instead of cashing it. He saved the envelopes of cash teams gave players for per diem expenses, allowing his kids to pick them out of a box when they did well in school
4keGJ TIL in 1972, at the height of the Troubles, the Irish Republican Army allowed an American TV crew to film its members as they engaged in weapons training, patrols, gun battles and bombing missions across Northern Ireland.
e0VA6 TIL that Eddie Vedder wrote the song "Jeremy" because he thought it was important to give meaning to the actions of Jeremy Wade Delle, a high school student who shot himself in front of his English class in 1991.
KOrl4 TIL that over 120 USPS mail trucks have caught on fire within the past five years.