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TIL That Marie Antoinette’s scandalous fashion choice of wearing lingerie as outerwear directly instigated a dramatic rise in American slavery.

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WLB8 TIL only one MythBusters result has been labeled as Busted/Plausible/Confirmed
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6EV8Z TIL Scientists accidentally discovered that grazing animals prevent grasslands from becoming desert after they killed thousands of elephants to try and conserve remaining grasslands, yet it actually made desertification worse. When they increased the number of grazing animals it restored the land.
QNdja TIL during the Super Bowl in 1992 FOX aired a live episode of "In Living Color” at halftime to steal viewers from CBS. It was so successful that the NFL got Michael Jackson to perform the next year. Prior to 1993 halftime shows usually had themes such as "Winter Magic" or "Be Bop Bamboozled"
oRypE TIL that if you suck your stomach in too often, it damages your body over time 😬