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TIL High heels were originally designed for men in medieval europe to assist with horseback riding.

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Lolr TIL a 7th grader was ejected from a basketball game for dunking.
v1W04 TIL According to the United States Department of Treasury, an estimated $200 million in counterfeit bills are in circulation, or approximately 1 note in counterfeits for every 4,000 in genuine currency.
4XOK5 TIL there is a song called December by Earth, Wind & Fire, which is an official parody of the song "September" but about Christmas.
YpGA TIL that September 10, 2001, the day before 9/11, it was announced that the Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion.
QNRK9 TIL about Blockbusting, a practice in the 60s where real-estate companies would fake the threat of demographic shift to scare White homeowners into selling their property before selling it back to Black buyers for a marked up price.