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TIL that chubby girls in Japan are called ‘marshmallows’
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TIL when novelist Shirley Jackson, author of the short story “The Lottery”, was checked into the hospital in 1948 to deliver her 3rd child, the clerk asked her to state her occupation. “Writer”, she replied. The clerk responded, “I’ll just put down housewife.”
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TIL of the unrecognized country that briefly existed between the US and Canada, the Republic of Indian Stream. Canada and the US sent in tax collectors which angered the population and the Republic was formed until the US and Great Britain could reach a settlement on the boundary line.
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TIL Microsoft tried to monopolize the early web browser market by making it difficult to install other web browsers and slowing down Windows if Internet Explorer was uninstalled.
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TIL the common criminal name is Jeremy
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TIL that Johnny Cash’s guitar player died in 1968. Cash found himself at a show where the temporary replacement, Carl Perkins, couldn’t make it. An audience member asked Cash if he could fill in for the night, and he said yes. Bob Wootton then became Cash’s guitar player for the next 29 years