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TIL Tesla wouldn’t speak to women who wore pearl jewelry.

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gMDRy TIL about Robert Kahn, a Jew who was forced to play his violin for Nazis while they held his parents and ransacked his home in 1938. Later, he hid the violin. He fled the Nazis, served in the US Army in WW2 and, years later, retrieved the violin from hiding, but never played it again.
x6PxB TIL that 569 million Slim Jim meat sticks are produced annually. The Slim Jim was invented in 1929 in Philadelphia and gained popularity in 1993, when Slim Jim began using Macho Man" Randy Savage in commercials, with the slogan, "snap into a Slim Jim".
LVNp TIL: Coffee was banned in Mecca in 1511. It was believed to stimulate radical thinking and hanging out.
E10xP TIL Queen Elizabeth II still has a 'Champion' for purposes of trial by combat and it's Francis John Fane Marmion Dymoke, a 65-year-old chartered accountant.
x6No0 TIL of a Native American in the Amazon Rainforest who, as the last surviving member of his uncontacted tribe, lived in total and deliberate isolation for about 20 years. He left behind a deep hole of unknown purpose in each of his former homes, giving rise to his nickname: "Man of the Hole"