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TIL men’s and women’s clothes button on opposite sides due to historical tradition where men needed quick access to their weapon using their right hand, while wealthy women were dressed by servants with the button configuration being flipped for easier access by the servants

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9Y0lB TIL engineers plan to build a space elevator on the Moon tethered to a counterweight floating in a “Lagrange Point”, a pocket of gravitational equilibrium in our Earth-Moon system. We will sling rockets into space using centrifugal force at the top of the elevator.
Brkwr TIL In 2016, the USFDA banned anti-bacterial soaps because they are not better, cleaner or safer than regular soap.
nWEGB TIL The publication of "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962 by Thomas S. Kuhn was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science
REr4 TIL: The Bali public holiday “Day of Silence” (Nyepi) requires all tourists to be imprisoned in their hotels for 24 hours. No one is allowed on the streets, and could be arrested by Traditional Police. All businesses including the airport, ATMs, and TV broadcasts are shut down.
xVdnb TIL that many ancient papyri (and knowledge about Ptolemaic Egypt) were discovered after a workman, frustrated with having discovered yet another crocodile mummy, threw it and broke it, leading to the discovery that some ancient mummies were stuffed with written papyri