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0d6XN TIL that in the 1920's, a man was given 1 year to live by doctors, if he moved to a warm climate. He built a house in Bartow, FL with a lot of unique features and designs, and would go on to live to the 1970's. It has become known as "The Wonderhouse" and become a local tourist attraction.
7r67O TIL: Despite the widely-held belief that ICEE created the Blue Raspberry flavor in the early 1970's, there's record of the Gold Medal company, which made Sno-Kones, using the flavor as early as 1958 for their cotton candy.
epM66 TIL Ear Pulling is considered a sport in some cultures
R7Xg8 TIL Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence contained a passage that condemned slavery as one of the many evils foisted upon the colonies by the British crown.
Oo6r4 TIL about Emma Kelly, the lady of 6000 songs. When asked to go through a playbook and it was found she could sing and play piano for 6000 songs from start to finish. She achieved some notoriety after appearing in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.