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TIL guitarist Ronnie Wood has had a plastic septum inserted in 1975, because he destroyed the natural one with cocaine use.

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e06bb TIL the Founder of Kodak, George Eastman, insisted the company use a 13 month, 28 day per month calendar. This system would be used by Kodak as the official date system from 1928 to 1989.
XRyD TIL In 1956 Spanish athlete Félix Erausquin broke the Javelin world record from 83 to 112 meters by spinning it around like a Discus. The technique was later banned by the IAAF because it was seen as too dangerous.
xVxw5 TIL that in 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. Known as the "pettycoat rulers," the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town
b6BMa TIL of Max Naumann, the leader of the Association of German National Jews, a Jewish organization during Nazi Germany that came out in support of Hitler. Despite their loyalty to Hitler, the group was rejected by Nazis and deemed illegal. Max & other members were sent to concentration camps.
8aV8K TIL in 1941, a little girl who was selling lemonade at her lemonade stand caused a polio outbreak. The health department found that she hadn't cleaned the cups customers used. She ended up getting polio along with her friends.