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TIL that Kay Thompson, author of the Eloise children's books, was also a popular singer who had a young Andy Williams as one of her backups, and became "romantically involved" with him on tour, when he was 19 and she was 38.

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6D9l TIL that there is 2.5 million of Zero Rupee bank notes in India. They are “paid” in protest by angry citizens to government functionaries who solicit bribes
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