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TIL pit stains come from the aluminum in antipersperant plus your sweat reacting to touching cotton, and is avoidable with aluminum-free antiperspirant

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EnDw TIL Walt Disney World was originally planned for Saint Louis, until the owner of Anheuser-Busch insulted Walt at a cocktail party
rN7e4 TIL that ice makes a sound as it melts (after holding my ear real close to the bore of a water bottle ╰(´∇`)╯)
69ERw TIL that the numbering system in India has different words for the powers of ten starting with ten to the fifth, and names every other power from there (seventh, ninth, etc.)
XEn0j SpaceX astronauts brought a little dinosaur in the rocket.
9Y4P7 TIL of U.S. Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, who saved President Ronald Reagan's life during a 1981 assassination attempt. Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service by the 1939 movie "Code of the Secret Service"... which starred a young Ronald Reagan.