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TIL Micro USB cables are designed to absorb the mechanical wear of the connection, so that after thousands of connections and disconnections only the cable needs to be replaced instead wearing out the port on the device.

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b9xaE TIL that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and country singer George Strait are cousins.
MPrW TIL that flexibility is not about muscle elasticity, but about training your nervous system that further muscle stretching is safe, so it won’t fire pain signals to the brain. We can all do a split under anesthesia
YpLe7 TIL doctors, nurses and Catholic clergy were involved in stealing ~ 300,000 babies during the Franco era in Spain. Children were moved from parents deemed "undesirable" and placed them with "approved" families. Birth mothers were told their baby had died.
WZxd TIL: HYDROX is the original and OREO is the knockoff. Sunshine made Hydrox in 1908 and Oreo copied it in 1912, yet Hydrox is perceived as the knockoff. Hydrox cookies have a tangy, less-sweet filling and a crunchier cookie that gets less soggy in milk. Hydrox will relaunch nationally in 2015.
nDYW TIL the rise in popularity of the traditional Mexican music “Banda” caused a rash in tuba thefts in Southern California. High Schools would get broken into just for their tubas.