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TIL in 1938, Helen Hulick, a burglary witness in an L.A. trial, was jailed for five days for wearing slacks in the courtroom

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oRKZ8 TIL - the 1923 Okeh Laughing Record from Germany had no credited performers, making it the first and only anonymous record to ever chart
PLYJ TIL Bill Gates can leap over an office chair from a standing position
BreJe TIL workers on the sinking Titanic had their wages stopped the moment they hit the water
jNYmR TIL of Bloody Sunday (1920) when 14 Irish civilians were killed in Croke Park during a Gaelic Football match when British forces opened fire on the players and the crowd.
kkYd TIL that a Nixon White House official who was jailed for directing the Watergate burglary team is now a scholar on ethics in government.