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TIL Otis Redding died 3 days after recording (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

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woYaP TIL that a blouse with a bow tied at the neck is called a lavallière, a name associated with the Duchess of La Vallière who was the first mistress of Louis XIV. It is also known as a Pussybow Blouse, because it resembles a bow on a pussy cat’s neck.
KONgG TIL of Wille Herold, a private of the German Army in World War II, who posed as a Luftwaffe captain and subsequently organized the mass execution of deserters in a German prison camp in the last days of the war.
5mRD TIL that the southern right whale has the largest testicles of any animal. Each weighing around 500 Kg/1100lb.
4XLj6 TIL the guy from the My Pillow commercials was a crack addict who thought of the idea to start a pillow company while hgh on a crack binge and woke up to the word "My Pillow" written all over the walls of his kitchen... then he actually followed through with the idea and eventually got sober.
R59Yj TIL: Once when a journalist asked her if she was pregnant, then Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto responded "No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the prime minister, its my right to be fat if I want to."