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TIL: Howard Hughes invented the prototype pushup bra because he was obsessed with Jane Russell's chest

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PGdL TIL that, as of the 2016 playoffs, no Vermont high school graduate has ever played in the NBA.
6ENwX TIL that a poet enciphered a poem into the DNA sequence of an "unkillable" bacteria, ensuring that his words will survive billions of years, beyond the human race and the Earth itself
P1jyO TIL "Hunted down", Soungarden's first single released by sub pop in 1987, was used as sub pop's "hold up" tune. People from major labels who would call sub pop would listen to this song while they were put on hold and eventualy began to inquire about the band. This how soundgarden signed with A&M
4XXER TIL "The Cosmic Sequence" is a set of numbers starting with 3 cubed, which pythagoras said "represents the cosmos". It seems he was onto something.
QJ499 TIL red foxes have been domesticated, similar to the way of wolves to dogs. It began in 1959 by a zoologist only as an experiment, but the foxes have use today.