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TIL that Jet Tila made the world's largest stir fry.

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p8a8G TIL: The decorative tag on running shoe laces is called a dubré or dubrae. Coined in ‘94 by Nike designer Damon Clegg for an ACG boot. Clegg had no name to describe the boot’s ornamental lace tag, so referred to it as a ‘doobrie’ – ‘thingamajig’ in Scottish slang. The name stuck.
xV7rk TIL that Medical Clowning is a growing field, clinically proven to help both the patients and the medical staff as well.
JWxQ TIL that when Nike was shooting their commercial in Kenya using Samburu tribesmen, one of them was supposed to say “Just do it” in native Maa, but instead he said, “I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike responded with: “we thought nobody in America would know what he said.”
YrMd TIL movie theaters make almost no money from ticket sales and profit almost solely on concessions
x8yo TIL that the person in one of the most famous suicide pictures(The Most Beautiful Suicide) ever taken left a note asking not let anyone see her body and to destroy it.