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TIL in the 1900s Doctors warned women that riding a bicycle may cause them to acquire "bicycle face"

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XEkLk TIL that in the city of Iruma, Japan keeps track of their elderly citizen who have dementia by having placing a waterproof QR sticker on their fingernails or toenails
VBYoZ TIL Unilever and Procter & Gamble have been fined $456M for fixing washing powder prices in 8 European countries in 2011. The fines were discounted by 10% after the 2 industry giants admitted running a cartel. Their rival Henkel, who provided the tip-off, was not fined in return.
JD8Q TIL The worst breach of U.S. military computers in history happened when someone picked up a memory stick they found in the parking lot and plugged it into their computer, which was attached to United States Central Command.
AD0Yo TIL that duels were so popular amongst military officials in the 1800s that the United States were running out of qualified officers and causing the War Department to put a ban on dueling.
k8We TIL there are now more Americans in jail, 6 million, than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”