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TIL Benjamin Franklin was an advocate of “air baths”, during which he would spend up to an hour reading or writing in his house completely nude.

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OoAne TIL that, unlike Mr. (an abbreviation of "mister"), it is rare for Mrs. to be written in a non-abbreviated form, and the unabbreviated word lacks a standard spelling. Missis, missus, misses, and even mis'ess have been used.
P1WLG TIL several languages, including widely-spoken ones like Farsi, Tagalog and even spoken Mandarin, do not have gendered pronouns (e.g. he or she)
Yp6m7 TIL that during the cold war, the CIA considered air dropping over the USSR XL sized condoms labeled as medium. This was made in an attempt to make the soviets think americans where anatomically superior to them to demoralize them.
R779 TIL Scientists have actually performed “succesful” head/brain transplants. “When the newly attached monkey woke up, he tried to bite off the finger of an attending doctor, and everyone cheered.”
jNyVj TIL Celine Dion hated “My Heart Will Go On” on first listen. Her husband convinced her to record a demo & she “wanted to choke” him for committing her. She recorded the demo in 1 take on a day she didn’t feel good. Everyone in the studio was “getting chills.” That demo track ended up in the movie.