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TIL Levi's CEO claimed you don't need to wash jeans, he hasn't washed his in more than a year!

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D1b0J TIL of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates: born in South Carolina the black son of a sharecropper in 1907, he danced on the street for coins as a child, lost his leg at 12, taught himself to tap-dance afterwards, was competing in talent shows by 15, on Broadway by 20 and performing for royalty by 30.
QJkxX TIL that drinking a hot drink on a hot day CAN cool you down, but only if there is no humidity and you’re scantily clad.
xrG0 TIL that a Russian woman in Chernobyl is making YouTube videos while injecting herself with radiation and eating apples from the Exclusion Zone. She also picks up pieces of the radioactive reactor core.
9Z77 TIL that a mild electric shock to a persons brain can improve their maths skills for up to six months. This could help treat the nearly 20 percent of the population with moderate to severe dyscalculia (math disability).
Me01A TIL that Janeane Garofalo married writer Robert Cohen in 1991 as a joke, not realizing the marriage was legitimate for 21 years when Cohen tried to get marry someone else