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TIL Study proves “old person smell” is real.

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4QMo TIL in 1957. in order for Sony to market its TR-63 transistor radio as “pocketable”, salesmen wore shirts with specialized, enlarged pockets in order to accommodate the large device.
69LPl TIL that despite the critical success of 2006 album “Back to Black” and that it won multiple Grammies, Amy Winehouse can be technically called a one-hit wonder in the US due to her only cracking the Top 40 once, with her song “Rehab”
GJYG TIL The Hanson brothers make a craft beer named Mmmhops.
ZJ4o TIL Kevin Mitnik served 8 months of his prison sentence in solitary confinement because the judge believed that if allowed access to a telephone Mitnik could start a nuclear war by just whistling into it.
oRNOR TIL that Pope Innocent VIII was breastfed while he was on his deathbed, as that was the only thing he could eat or drink