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TIL that the classic “striped sailor shirt” originally featured 21 stripes, one for each of Napoleon’s victories.

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x6PxB TIL that 569 million Slim Jim meat sticks are produced annually. The Slim Jim was invented in 1929 in Philadelphia and gained popularity in 1993, when Slim Jim began using Macho Man" Randy Savage in commercials, with the slogan, "snap into a Slim Jim".
1a5wO TIL that if two identical metals touch in space, they instantly bond together and are permanently stuck. This phenomenon is called "cold welding."
WXY4 TIL that in 2003 a Boeing 727 was stolen from an Angolan airport. It took off without clearance and flew out over the Atlantic with its lights and transponder switched off – and was never seen again
BkjL TIL Dwayne Johnson was set to star in a movie about Hawaiian warrior-king Kamehameha, but was pulled because he’s Samoan, with the producer saying, “It would be a great taboo for the part to go to a nationality that was a fierce enemy of the Hawaiians during that time.”
gMkWb TIL of Lingchi, also known as death by a thousand cuts, which was a form of torture and execution used from roughly 900 CE until it was banned in 1905. It involved methodically slicing portions of the body over an extended period of time, eventually resulting in death.