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TIL Owe Sandström designed ABBA's performing costumes in consultation with the band members and ABBA producer Stig Anderson. The only outfit Anderson wasn't really satisfied with was Agnetha's fitted white jumpsuit, as the outfit attracted more attention than the song

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jNbZQ TIL that the phrase “to blow smoke up your ass” was an actual medical practice used by indigenous North American people to stimulate respiration. It’s called a tobacco smoke enema.
a8Q8N TIL that in 1924, top light bulb manufacturers formed the Phoebus Cartel to secretly shorten bulb lifespans to only 1,000 hours - making us buy light bulbs more often and paving the way for planned obsolescence
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MeZja TIL: In 2006 a lost Christian gospel was translated and read for the first time in over 1500 years. In The Gospel of Judas, Jesus says the Abrahamic God is an evil lesser God named Saklas that created humanity, but that there is a higher God named Barbelo that he is the Son of.