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TIL: The decorative tag on running shoe laces is called a dubré or dubrae. Coined in ‘94 by Nike designer Damon Clegg for an ACG boot. Clegg had no name to describe the boot’s ornamental lace tag, so referred to it as a ‘doobrie’ – ‘thingamajig’ in Scottish slang. The name stuck.

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R5RW7 TIL about methanogens, micro-organisms that find oxygen essentially toxic and prefer carbon dioxide - or other carbon-rich compounds - to produce water and methane. Methanogens tend to be found in extreme environments, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents and in the Earth’s mantle.
gMBb8 TIL of the 1937 Fox vault fire, in which 40,000 films were destroyed. 75% of all 20th Century Fox films from before 1930 were lost. There are actors for whom not a single copy of a single one of their films survive.
Z6vv TIL tigers, jaguars and leopards love the smell of Calvin Klein’s ‘Obsession For Men’. This fragrance is used to lure the big cats to camera’s in the wild.
NWNe TIL that in 1991 World Table Tennis Championships North and South Korea participated as a unified team under the name “Korea” to beat the “unbeatable” Chinese team
NnJQ TIL that according to English law, the “Ancient Lights law” states that the owner of a building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more can forbid any construction or other obstruction that would deprive him/her of that illumination or “their portion of natural light”