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TIL that Sir Richard Branson dislikes the formality of neck ties so much that he often carries around a pair of scissors with him, ready to cut the ties off of unsuspecting tie wearers. He even has a cushion that he keeps at his home on Necker Island made up from the ties of some of his victims.

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nWkd9 TIL 20 years ago crab fishers off the coast of Australia realized bottlenose dolphins were snatching the bait from their crab pots. However last year scientists captured the first ever footage of the dolphins in the act. The fishers fourth method for baiting the pots finally worked in stopping them.
6QvJ TIL that SIM cards contain a complete microcomputer, with a processor, RAM, EEPROM Storage and ROM with a built-in OS.
XE47P TIL the name Scotch Tape comes from a racial stereotype that Scottish people are cheap. When a painter was testing the product, he complained that the makers were “Scotch” with the amount adhesive on the tape.
AJvl TIL that Fiji water company ran the slogan “Fiji, because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. The Cleveland water dept. Took offense, and ran a test determining that Fiji water has more impurities than the cities’ tap water.
pDVb TIL that when you get motion sickness, it’s the result of your brain being tricked into thinking you have been poisoned. The discrepancy between your body feeling motion but not seeing it causes you to vomit the non-existent neurotoxin or poison