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TIL blue jeans were invented after tailor Jacob Davis partnered with Levi Strauss in 1873 to patent rivet-reinforced work trousers.

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myvY TIL in 1980 William Bergstrom arrived at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with two suitcases: one containing $777,000 in cash, the other empty. He placed the full amount on a single bet of dice which he won and packed the winnings in the empty suitcase
XEM46 TIL: in the Batman 60’s series, Batman & Robin would interact with people while scaling the side of a building, during the blatantly bad special affect of the “bat climb”. These were cameo appearances, & included Sammy Davis Jnr & Bruce Lee.
KOpwR TIL that before trees (~400 million years ago) the Earth's landscape was dotted with 24ft tall, 3ft wide mushroom spires called Prototaxites
J1lrk TIL that Illinois fought and lost a war against crows in the 1930/40s.
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