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TIL that stretched earlobes (gauged ears) often smell bad due to dead skin and sebum.

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AQEo TIL that the main gas companies today (Exxon, Chevrvon, and Conocco Phillips) all came from the break up of Standard Oil.
e0Omk TIL: After annexing Crimea in 2014, Russia began planning construction on the longest bridge in Europe, a 19km road and rail bridge connecting Crimea with mainland Russia. Such a bridge had been considered since 1903, it was completed in 2018.
k9M7 TIL - the navy is now teaching sailors Celestial Navigation as a response to potential cyber attacks to ship navigation systems.
X0x9X TIL that Steve Irwin's TV career only went for 10 years (He did his first show in 1996 and died in 2006)
1677O TIL that New Hampshire's AA minor league baseball team was initially going to be called the New Hampshire Primaries and have a logo of a donkey and an elephant side by side, but local fans disliked it so much that the team held a name contest and instead became the New Hampshire Fisher Cats