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TIL Mythbusters were not allowed to make an episode about how trackable and hackable RFID chips are due to credit card companies threatening to pull advertisement from Discovery.

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78gl7 TIL that the fez was nearly universal as men’s headwear in the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s. However, the hats were largely made in the Austrian Empire. When Austria annexed Bosnia in 1908, the Ottomans boycotted Austrian goods in protest. The fez’s popularity started to fade.
kOVne TIL "Mudlarks" were folks who scavenged the muddy rivers in London in the 18th & 19th centuries at low tide in order to sell anything they found.
6jXY TIL that Bottlenose dolphins like to do drugs by finding pufferfish, (which produce a powerful neurotoxin and are deadly to eat) and gently chew on them to “get high” on a small amount of the toxin, and will even pass a pufferfish around to other dolphins to share the “drugs.” Puff puff pass!
QWbp TIL that Chris Walken does not like to be called “Christopher” because it sounds “like a sneeze”
pYnRA TIL: Actor Tony Danza (peak fame in the 80s) was briefly a professional boxer. He went 9-3 with 7 KOs (5 in the 1st round).