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TIL that wearing a red shirt will get you more attention in online dating sites, as it signals to the viewer you are sexually receptive, and also help you to hitchhike

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0yly TIL that in 1955, Miles Davis had surgery to remove polyps on his larynx and was told not to talk for 2 weeks.During that time, he got into an argument with an executive and heard his voice fade to a croak in mid-tirade, damaging his vocal cords giving him his raspy whisper that he became known for.
obNr TIL there is a jellyfish whose sting will leave you with and “Inpending sense of doom” and suicidal thought lasting up to two weeks
DQXyJ TIL about Andy George, who makes a chicken sandwich entirely from scratch. He grew his own veggies, travelled via plane to collect ocean water to make salt, milked a cow to make butter and cheese, killed a chicken, and grew wheat for flour. The entire project took six months and costs him $1,500.
1ay9W TIL A Former Marine made an epic beer run from NY to Vietnam in 1967
v44j TIL an engineer in the 1930’s apparently created a “rainmaking machine”, made it rain in several places and then disappeared without a trace