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

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PxrL TIL: Pop-up casinos exist in Nevada. They show up and operate for one 8-hour shift at defunct casinos in order to preserve the gaming license.
R5pQa TIL Michelin Star is the same Michelin as the tyres
XE1XX TIL that Canada consumes the most doughnuts and has the most doughnut shops per capita of any country in the world
DDJe TIL Robert Liston is the only surgeon in history to have performed an operation with a 300% mortality rate, losing his patient to infection, accidentally amputating his assistant’s fingers, who also died of infection, and slashing a spectator who died from shock
Egpwo TIL that when Alexander met Celtic envoys, but really Celtic people for the first time, he asked them in their meeting what they feared most, they replied "only that the sky might fall on our heads."