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TIL That during the 17th and 18th centuries that for queens and couturiers alike, showing your breasts was a fashion statement, whereas showing your ankles or knees was considered faux pas.

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Zp5gY TIL at Christmastime in Ethiopia, villagers play a long-distance hockey-like game called Gena in the space between villages but with no defined boundaries.
ydpJ TIL 24 yr old woman was sentenced to 20 months in jail for sending abusive Facebook messages to herself from fake profiles she made for her father and his wife
Y5xA TIL When Wong Shun Leung (Bruce Lee’s master and Ip man’s student) was asked if he was the best fighter in the world, he replied, “No, only the second best”; when asked who was the best, he said, “I have not met him yet.”
D1GNj TIL that billions of cockroaches are being farmed in China to solve urban waste, provide medicinal treatment, develop beauty products, and feed livestock. One particular company has raised over six billion and prevents their escape by surrounding them in a moat filled with fish.
x6ow0 TIL that there is a temple in Taiwan that was built in honor of a Japanese pilot who steered his plane to crash where the temple now stands rather than into a populated area during World War II.