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TIL that the “Baseball T-shirt” sleeve style was originally designed to provide freer arm movement to benefit sword fighting.

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Xva6 TIL On ‘Three’s Company’, John Ritter’s scrotum was briefly visible through his boxer shorts. John Ritter told the NY Observer when asked him about the controversy “I’ve requested that Nickelodeon air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t”
e5xE TIL in 2008, Nebraska implemented a law to allow parents to drop off unwanted newborns at safe havens; the law didn’t state an age limit, and nearly all the children abandoned were over ten years old- some were even 17!
wZYM TIL The inspiration for Beavis was a straight A Student who had a similar laugh. He would laugh at everything his extremely hot teacher would say while biting his lip, and scribbling on paper.
PR0w TIL JK Rowling’s first husband was a 23 year old student who claimed that he was the first to read Harry Potter. Their marriage fell apart less than a year later after he forced her out of the apartment with their baby daughter at 5 in the morning
gGkb TIL the cause of blurry vision in the first hour after waking in the morning is small pieces of rheum (eye sleep) unsticking from your eyeball and floating down to be washed away by your tear duct.