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PoLG TIL originally, jeans were cuffed because workers would purchase jeans larger than they fit to deal with shrinkage, and it later served for cowboys to place tobacco, cigarettes and coin in the cuffs as well
5VmV9 TIL that comedian Keegan-Michael Key and DC Comics writer Dwayne McDuffie were half-brothers.
X0G16 TIL Chicago's last Republican mayor, Big Bill, was elected 97 years ago and held an open alliance with Al Capone. Following his 1927 victory, Big Bill's supporters flooded onto his floating Speakeasy and it sank under their weight.
j64Kn TIL that an asteroid traveling at 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) per second collided near South Africa 3.26 billion years ago creating a megatsunami that extended to a depth of thousands of meters beneath the surface of the ocean and rose to the height of a skyscraper when it reached the shorelines.
Y7M87 TIL that in 2014, Scientists at UCLA published a study which demonstrated that muscle mass, independent of fat mass and cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors, was inversely associated with mortality risk in older adults