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TIL Americans spend nearly $400 Million on Halloween pet costumes each year

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XErpj TIL a Canadian university student wore the same pair of $165 Levi jeans for 330 days straight, without washing them. He and his professor found no measurable difference in bacterial growth on the jeans from wearing them for 15+ months straight compared to just 13 days.
gMY4W TIL John Hall co-wrote the 1976 hit "Still the One" with his wife. They divorced in 1985 and he later remarried, meaning she is, in fact, no longer "The One".
PRdZ TIL Wonder Woman has a black sister named Nubia. She was sculpted from black clay just as Diana was sculpted from white clay.
ADbw TIL the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville turned a profit of only $57
GYv94 TIL about the Kindertransport, an organized rescue program for Jewish children that was supported by the British government in the months leading up to World War II. Nearly 10,000 Jewish children were taken in, many of whom were the only members of their families to survive the Holocaust.