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TIL High heels used to be an essential accessory for horseback riders and weren’t associated with being feminine

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PYEyE TIL That in 1973 IBM offered its UPC bar code proposal to the grocery industry for free. The industry accepted a very close standard to their proposal. However, IBM also made the first technology capable of reading the bar codes, and made tons of money selling the equipment to grocery stores.
l7RRG TIL: How Much Guardians of the Galaxy Actors Got Paid For Their MCU Movies. VIN DIESEL alone was paid between 13 to 15 million dollars just to say, "I am Groot."
R58gl TIL that NBA star Stephen Curry and his father Dell Curry (former NBA player) have the same full name. They're both "Wardell Stephen Curry" (though the father takes the "Sr." suffix and Steph takes "II").
168R4 TIL: A Grazing Bullet does not need to touch the skin in order for it to wound the skin. It is still considered a gun shot wound.
5YWLR TIL that RMS Olympic offered to take on survivors of RMS Titanic, however the captain of Carpathia refused, claiming that the survivors would be traumatised if they were asked to board Titanic’s identical twin