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TIL high heels were originally worn by men as a signal of status. Women started wearing heels as a way of trying to appropriate masculine power. Being rational (practical footwear), everyone quit wearing heels altogether. It emerged again for women during mid 19th century from pornography.

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VBK4G TIL that there is a district in Finland named "Port Arthur" after the port which had been recently lost by Russia at the time. The name came to be after Russian workmen building the district told local children they were "rebuilding Port Arthur"
PYx0G TIL Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky offers free tuition to students working at least 10 hours a week & free room and board to students working 15 hours per week
jNKrR TIL: Koshik, an elephant in a South Korean zoo, learned to imitate human speech by sticking its trunk in its mouth
VMWxk TIL: Altitude can effect how we perceive taste. Thus airlines alter food pallets specifically for high altitude enjoyment.
rRJ14 TIL Carbon-dated around the early 15th century, the Voynich manuscript is written in an untranslatable language. Studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, the manuscript has never been demonstrably deciphered and claims that it has been decoded have never been independently verified.