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TIL to get women to smoke cigarettes in the 1920s, tobacco companies devised a campaign of equating cigarettes as “torches of freedom.” The campaign helped women smoking jump from 5% in 1923 to 18.1% in 1935.

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ZpAQR TIL Researchers are unsure why some people develop excess keratin on the skin, causing a condition with bumpy skin. In 92% of cases it is on upper arms and it is medically harmless but cosmetically displeasing
R7mrl TIL that to deal with periods, “Until the turn of the 20th century, women simply bled into their clothes or, where they could afford it, shaped scraps of cloth or other absorbents like bark or hay into a pad or tampon-like object”
xMpk TIL a group of Scientists have discovered that cheese contains a protein that the human body recognizes in a fashion similar to addictive drugs, called “casomorphins,” or “casein-derived morphine-like compounds,” prompting one researcher to refer to cheese as “dairy crack.”
xG01 TIL of a woman, Lizzie Velasquez, who was born with a rare disease called ‘neonatal progeroid syndrome’, that people consider to be, 'The ugliest woman in the world’ and how she turned into a positive role model and motivational speaker
JpYj TIL in 1999 Google brought in 16 students to test out their search engine. Upon reaching the site, they sat still for 45 seconds…just staring. Worried, Google finally asked what was wrong. All 16 responded the same: they were waiting for the rest of the page to load.