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TIL During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes." The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of human shoe prints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.

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6E7Pl TIL Coco Chanel was a confirmed Nazi agent who went under the code name 'Westminster'. She spent most of WW2 in Paris in the Ritz, sleeping with Nazi officers and had direct contact to Himmler and Goebbels.
WpLd TIL that New College in Oxford was in need of new oak beams for it’s dining hall (the old ones were infested with beetles). They soon discovered that the original builders had planted them replacements hundreds of years before.
4yy6 TIL Tokyo’s Mitsui Garden Yotsuya hotel offers ‘crying rooms’ only to women. Y. Ezato, the PR representative for the hotel, says with more Japanese women succeeding in the workforce, it’s causing a rise in female stress/anxiety. The rooms include tear-jerking movies, luxurious tissues & warm sheets
NZZQ TIL during the Iraq-Iran War, the United States shot down an Iranian civilian plane, killing 260 people. The US claimed it was outside civilian airspace and didn’t respond to radio calls. Both claims have been found untrue, but the US has yet to apologize.
69EoY TIL there is a mermaid bar in Montana with an underwater viewing window to watch "mermaids" while you drink