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TIL women couldn’t wear pants on the Senate floor until 1993

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NXrdb TIL Marie-Antoine Carême 1783-1833 'the king of chefs and chef of kings' : developed HAUTE cuisine; introduced the poofy Toque Chef hat; worked for Napoleon; Tzar Alexander; the price regent and the Rosthchilds and built sculptures out of sugar paste
woYKo TIL in 1979 the CIA used Psychics specializing in a technique call "remote viewing" to gather information on hostages in Iran.
X0JBR TIL Teeth blackening was popular around the world in times past and still practiced by a few
b6a7 TIL there’s an open source solar energy collector that can be build from scrap for well under $100, using basic tools and skills
WKm4 TIL of Carlos Hathcock, an American sniper with the only confirmed kill of shooting an enemy sniper through his own rifle scope, hitting him in the eye and killing him.