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TIL That karate belts go from lighter to darker colors as you rank up since Japan was poor during WW2, and dying the belts were cheaper than getting new ones

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6EZoJ TIL that in 2013 the Vatican had to pull 6000 papal medals from sale because the inscription said “Lesus“ instead of “Jesus”.
gMEXW TIL that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries telephone companies used existing barbed wire fences to transmit electrical phone signals to rural areas to save money due to the price of phone lines.
vae8 TIL when the CDC found that having a gun in your home made it more likely that you would be murdered, the Congress, lobbied by the NRA, effectively banned further federal studies of gun violence.
RL9w TIL that “Beats by Dre” headphones, which sell for as much as $450, only cost about $14 to make.
5YR9 TIL on July 10, 1947, Senator Glen Taylor said: “I almost wish the flying saucers would turn out to be space ships from another planet, because the possibility of hostility would unify the people of the earth as nothing else could.”