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TIL Since hair can absorb oils, leftover hair from barber shops is used to clean up oil spills.

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Wxv4 TIL Between 213-210BC in Ancient China, Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi buried scholars alive (and burned books) in order to unify all thoughts and political opinions and to suppress intellectual discourse.
YpkX7 TIL, in the early 1990s Willie Nelson had nearly all of his property confiscated and sold by the IRS, for payment of back taxes and fines. His famous guitar, named Trigger, was only saved from sale because his daughter smuggled it out of his Texas home and took it to Hawaii.
7BJZ TIL Disney’s Aladdin was originally set in Baghdad. Director John Musker: “We kept it Baghdad in our first treatment, and then the Gulf War happened—the first Gulf War. Roy Disney said, ‘This can’t be in Baghdad.’ So, I took letters and did a jumbled anagram and came up with Agrabah.”
ep6Mn TIL that the first fitted glass contact lens was created in 1888
MQ0 TIL there is a museum dedicated specifically to bad art.