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TIL Reddit started out as a site to order fast food by text message.

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LPXr TIL that the notch in the heel of men’s dress shoes is to prevent your heel from getting caught on your pants’ cuffs. It’s called the ‘Gentleman’s Notch’.
d8PrE TIL that Bill Gates was ever accused of being a member of Chinese Communist Party. Misinformation kills.
nmyo TIL Washington DC is a sixty-nine-square-mile city that jails more black men than it graduates from high school every year.
DQL6P TIL the US got rid of seasonal clock changes in the 70s and everyone hated it and quickly went back to the clock changes.
Omne TIL because ant-eating frogs go hunting for bugs in tiny and hard-to-access places, scientists use them as a tool to go where they can’t go. By flushing their stomachs, the amphibians vomit whatever is in their bellies—revealing potential treasures, like the new ant Lenomyrmex hoelldobleri