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TIL that during WWII nylon was rationed leaving women with no stockings, and since going out bare legged was a fashion faux pas, women had to get creative and began painting on their stockings. Some even used eyeliner to draw a trompe l’oeil seam on the back of their legs.

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l78x1 TIL that Null Island located at 0°N 0°E, where the prime meridian and equator meet. Null Island is 600 miles off the coast of West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea in international seas. The spot is marked with the permanently-moored Soul buoy.
7WVp TIL, the passenger pigeon went from one of the most abundant animals in the world, with flocks that would blacken the sky, to extinct in a little more than a century.
X07PE TIL that in order to obtain silk the silk worm is boiled or gassed inside their cocoons. 6,600 cocoons equaling 1 kilo of silk.
j6B4R TIL Crown Royal Whisky was created in 1939 specifically to celebrate King George VI as the first reigning monarch to Cross the Atlantic and visit Canada. The popular whisky wasn't available outside Canada until 1964.
W7X0X TIL in 1986 the city of Cleveland, OH attempted to break a world record releasing the most helium balloons at one time and ended up killing 2 men.