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TIL that in 1943 the US banned selling sliced bread

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kX45 TIL the classic X’s on moonshine bottles refer to the amount of times it had been through the still, and that more X’s meant a higher alcohol by volume.
wLxgM TIL that after WWII, Col. S. L. A. Marshal published a report that found only 15-20% of soldiers in combat fired to kill during the war, even if their lives were threatened. This prompted the US Army to switch from bulls-eye targets to sillouette targets to desensitize soldiers to killing
9YWdB TIL According to historians specializing in ancient Egypt, women wore red lipstick to announce that they were willing to give oral and that they were good at it.
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