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TIL Pajamas Took Off Because Everybody Wanted To Look Their Best During Zeppelin Bombing Raids

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69yJX TIL the iconic Smiley Face image was designed by Harvey Ross Ball in 10 min for $45 for an insurance company in 1963, though he didn't trademark or copyright it. In 1971 two brothers "simply appropriated it" by adding "Have a Happy Day" to it to copyright it then selling 50m related buttons/products
m1YpR TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person verified to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
X0knj TIL Women fart
e0BPD TIL the Jal Mahal (literally "water palace") is a palace in the middle of a lake in India, and 4 of its stories are under the lake.
kBGg TIL In 1988 a Finnish artist made a video in which he killed a cat with an axe and then masturbated over the carcass. This award-winning artisan is now a professor of arts in Helsinki