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TIL Abraham Lincoln grew his famous beard because a 7 year old girl told him "All the ladies like whiskers"

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VMgdZ TIL Liechtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.
YpelP TIL that David Bowie was injured in his eye and developed a condition called anisocoria, where one pupil is a different size than the other. He was injured in a fight over a girl.
16MbO TIL in a Florida ceremony honoring James Earl Jones on MLK Day in 2002, the plaque honoring the actor bore the assassin's name — James Earl Ray — thanking him for "keeping the dream alive"
bG8Z TIL a man in Russia domesticated foxes that now sell for $9000. “Curiously, the friendly gene came attached to some other physical genes that made the foxes look like other domestic animals: curly tails, white faces, droopy ears. It took only about 35 years to completely domesticate the species.”
wLRlE TIL Rick Springfield found himself crushing on a girl that was dating his friend Gary, who he had become friends with while taking a stained glass-making class in Pasadena. Renaming his friend "Jessie" gave him the 1981 hit "Jessie's Girl", as "Gary's Girl" didn't have the same ring to it.