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TIL the custom of wearing a hat greatly diminished when cars with little headroom were created

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a8GmN TIL in 1958, 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate and her 18-year-old boyfriend killed her parents and strangled her two-year-old sister to death in their Nebraska home — then went on a multi-state rampage in which they murdered 8 people and killed at least 2 dogs with their bare hands
1gxP TIL that the last woolly mammoths lived at the same time the Egyptians were building the pyramids
ZmyQ TIL that the term ‘sour grapes’ originates from the Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Grapes” (620–564 BCE), in which a fox, unable to reach grapes he is seeking, decides that they must have been sour. The moral that accompanies the story is that “any fool can despise what he can not get”.
vPQgj TIL In Iowa you can be arrested for simulated public intoxication
16Lnr TIL that the B Vitamins are numbered sequentially in order of their discovery. B4, B8, B10 and B11 were all un-qualified as B Vitamins upon further research & definition refinement (akin to Pluto), leaving the remaining familiar 8 B Vitamins with gaps in the number sequence like retired jerseys.