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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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JYYrv TIL for several hundred years the Catholic Church cited a document (the Donation of Constantine) claiming Emperor Constantine bestowed vast territory and spiritual and temporal power on the Pope. It was clearly demonstrated to be a forgery in the 1400s
BraVb TIL in 1970 a 24-year-old doctorate student in computer planning filed suit seeking to void the Vietnam draft lottery on the grounds that the selection process did not produce truly random results, resulting in birth dates later in the year being drawn disproportionately early, and vice versa.
a8jY9 TIL Mount Olympus, home of the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece, is a real mountain
Oo6WX TIL American founding father George Wythe was poisoned by his great-nephew, George Sweeney. Even though Wythes black housekeeper provided evidence against Sweeney, it was thrown out in court because a black person could not legally testify against a white person, and Sweeney went free.
L50Q TIL the first cat to be cloned was named Copycat.