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TIL: Doritos are nachos, I'm a fucking idiot

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drj7 TIL that around 1778, fashionable Parisian women rarely went out in potentially stormy weather without lightning rods attached to their hats–an artist sketched this hat-lightening-rod contraption (looks like a long drooping chain hanging off the hat, rather than an upright antenna).
J1gPj TIL People born in American Samoa, which has been held by the United States for more than 120 years, are not automatically citizens of the United States.
0NJM TIL - Before Orbitz.com was a travel site it was the site of a soft drink that had balls of jelly suspended in it.
QJgD9 TIL it was Kevin Costner who suggested his co-star Whitney Houston record "I Will Always Love You" for the soundtrack to The Bodyguard starring Costner and Houston. Her efforts were rewarded with 2 Grammy Awards and 4 million copies sold in the United States alone.
16oDr TIL: In 2021, the man with the largest family in India died. He had 39 wives, 94 kids, and 33 grandchildren. He was the head of a religious sect and lived in a pink complex with 100 rooms. He once married 10 wives in a year and would have 7-8 by his side at all times.