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TIL that Clara Bow from Taylor Swift's recent album was a huge film star in the 1920s and 30s who made 58 films in the oppressive studio system, then walked away from it all to defy the system and lived out her life happily in privacy

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PwbJ TIL Indiana legislators once tried to legally round the value of pi to 3.2
QJM1p TIL that all three Axis Powers, Germany, Japan, and Italy, were each supposed to host the 1936, 1940, and 1944 Winter Olympics respectively. Only Germany got the chance as both Japan and Italy’s Olympic opportunity were canceled due to the Second World War.
Wkj0d TIL about SS Baychimo, a Swedish built 1,322 ton cargo steam-ship that was left abandoned by its crew in 1931 due to fear of sinking. Surprisingly, Baychimo did not sink, but instead drifted around as a ghost ship for nearly 40 years without a crew, she was last seen in 1969.
a86lL TIL dunce caps were originally a sign of high intelligence and wisdom. Philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus was a proponent of pointy hats as a way to funnel knowledge to the mind and his followers, called Dunsmen, wore them. By the 1500s the Dunsmen fell out of favor as “behind the times”.
xVmX5 TIL that Mao Zedong was responsible for more deaths than Hitler or Stalin.Political scientist Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014), a non-China specialist who made wildly higher estimates than any other historian—that Mao was responsible for 77 million deaths.