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TIL most of the hats in the American Old West were bowlers instead of Stetsons.

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5VBgp TIL that during the Little Rock Crisis, ex-Governor of Arkansas Sid McMath called on Eisenhower to assume control of the Arkansas National Guard if Governor Orval Faubus tried to obstruct the carrying out of federal court orders on school integration.
kJx14 TIL Leo McCarey, the director of Duck Soup (1933), said in an interview with Cahiers du cinema in 1967: "The most surprising thing about this film was that I succeeded in not going crazy, because I really did not want to work with them: they were completely mad."
gwp7 TIL Jerome Iginla donates $2,000 to charity for every goal he scores. He has scored over 500 career goals and donated more than $700000 in 2000 to 2013.
LkxPQ TIL in 2004 a woman in Texas was arrested and faced a year in jail for selling a vibrator to two undercover cops posing as a married couple at a private party
OoROa TIL about molluscum contagiosum. Commonly called "the wrestling disease" It is a skin infection with no cure. It can take the immune system 6 months to 4 years to clear it up. Depending on transmission it can also be classified as an STD.