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TIL: That that little jeans pocket inside your actual jeans pocket originaly was designed to protect cowboys watches.

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69M5X TIL that those oxygen masks that come down inside airplanes are connected to individual “chemical oxygen generators” rather than a supply of oxygen gas
VMBKQ TIL that Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson never got into drugs and showed his kids what people that got messed up by drugs looked like to let them judge for themselves.
LrQp TIL during the Challenger search and recovery, sailors found a floating duffle bag full of cocaine, worth $13 MIL - enough to the pay for the Navy’s search and recovery efforts. [pdf]
4XVBa TIL that the gym chain Planet Fitness, which charges between $10 and $20 per month, has, on average, 6,500 members per gym. Most of its gyms can hold around 300 people. Planet Fitness can do this because it knows that members won't show up.
D14pj TIL Cigarette smokers have lower IQs than non-smokers, and the more a person smokes, the lower their IQ, a study in over 20,000 Israeli military recruits suggests