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TIL that a group of embittered singles reserved all the odd-numbered seats at a cinema's primetime screening on Valentine's Day so that couples would be forced to sit apart

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XJjR TIL that 39% of Bob Ross’ paintings contain an almighty mountain, 44% contain at least one happy cloud, and 18% feature a charming little cabin.
m4go TIL King Charles VI of France really believed he was made out of glass.
j6jnE TIL that the USS Pueblo - a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in January of 1968 is still listed as a commissioned vessel in the US Naval Fleet
MeKGm TIL that in 1885 Chief Sitting Bull spent four months playing himself in reconstructions of Custer’s Last Stand for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Historians are divided as to whether he cursed the audiences in the Lakota language during his performance.
9wk67 TIL that Joe Jackson would hold a belt as the Jackson 5 rehearsed, ready to strike his children if they stepped out of line. Michael Jackson was terrified of his father. “I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting."