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TIL that Pilates is named after a person, Joe Pilates

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E1rY7 TIL An group of archaeologists have found trousers—worn between 3K and 3.3K yrs ago—in a tomb in W China. The trousers were invented for horse riding by Chinese pastoralists and are the oldest known examples of this kind of apparel. The trousers are formed from three separately woven pieces.
65N8 TIL that the UK government is trying to pass a bill that requires all 18-26 year olds to undergo a year of national service
Wn49 TIL the man who directly killed the most people was Vasily Blokhin Stalin’s chief executionor. During the Katyn Massacre, he personally executed 7000 people.
EKAx TIL Samuel Jackson is the actor with the highest grossing film total of all time.
Ooj07 TIL Morphogenesis, the math behind for example a giraffes spots or a zebras stripes. This theory coined by Turing found that these apparently random patterns have a mathematic order.