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TIL T-Pain streams both music demos and games on Twitch

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wA6Y TIL Eisenhower may have played semi-professional baseball under the assumed name ‘Wilson’ and then lied about it so he would be eligible to play college football at West Point. If he had been caught he may have never graduated, achieved a military career, or become President.
l4l1 TIL pit stains come from the aluminum in antipersperant plus your sweat reacting to touching cotton, and is avoidable with aluminum-free antiperspirant
b9R90 TIL A font called Doves Type was lost in 1917 after one of the creators threw the printing blocks into the River Thames. Some of it was recovered by divers in 2015
wBRW TIL “Jacuzzi” is actually a brand of hot tubs, and people use it the same way Q-tips are used for cotton swabs
9Gy7 TIL in 1923, a Mississippi association developed an influential set of recommendations about street-sign shapes whose impact is still felt today. The recommendations were based on a simple, albeit not exactly intuitive, idea: the more sides a sign has, the higher the danger level it invokes.