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TIL that Harvard used to have its own porn magazine

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VBO8Q TIL “Don’t Mess with Texas” was created as part of a marketing campaign aimed at 16-24 yr old males to stop throwing their trash all over Texas.
X0Ej6 TIL that after the tragic suicide of socialite Dorothy Hale, Frida Kahlo was commissioned by Hale's friend, Clare Booth Luce, to paint a likeness of Hale in remembrance. Instead of a beautiful portrait, however, Kahlo painted a sequence of Hale leaping to her death from her 16th story apartment.
0mlM TIL Pierre Terrail (a french knight) single-handedly defended a bridge against 200 Spaniards during the battle of Garigliano.
BrBYr TIL Tic Tacs are actually 95% sugar but they state that they are 0% sugar because their serving size is less than 0.5g according to FDA labeling rules
r6ew TIL of the acting agency “Amputees in Action,” which provides amputee actors to simulate gore and missing limbs in war movies like Saving Private Ryan.