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TIL Richard Nixon scrupulously maintained a massive list of political enemies, including Joe Namath, Bill Cosby, and the Otis Elevator Company

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d8OXd TIL that statisticians, Ruth O'Brien and William Shelton, tried to make standardized U.S clothing sizes for women in the 1940s by measuring 15,000 women. They came up with a three part sizing system due to the diversity in body shapes. It was rejected because it was too difficult for manufacturing.
4kVR5 TIL that Toto the Dog from The Wizard of Oz was replaced with a cow in it's 1903 adaption, due to the difficulty of training animals for the stage.
j6Aov TIL that during WWII the US Navy executed unrestricted warfare against Japan, the most massive and devastating submarine campaign of all time. The goal was to cut off food to Japanese civilians. This was done without approval from the US government.
XwgX TIL an MIT geek in the 70’s convinced a record label he had a band recording an album in LA. In reality he mixed the entire thing himself from old homemade demo tapes in a run-down basement in Boston. It only cost a few thousand dollars to create, and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide
OGQLY TIL, that the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, also known as the Avicii Arena, represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System model, which spans across the country with scaled distances between celestial bodies.