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TIL People named Isabella receive free lifetime admission into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

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ANWpB TIL that, in 1844, while dignitaries were visiting the USS Princeton, a gun exploded, killing the Secretaries of State and Defense. President Tyler was belowdecks. Afterwards, he carries away the fainted daughter of one of the dead dignitaries. He marries her a few months later, making her First Lad
P41J TIL Rice Paddy art is an art form originating in Japan where people plant rice of various types and colors to create a giant pictures in a paddy field.
n9y9 TIL that people are 3D printing penises and using NASA technology in sex toys
ROr9 TIL Kevin Smith, funded his first film Clerks, by maxing out several credit cards and selling most of his comic book collection and using most of his college fund along with insurance money from a car he lost in a flood just to pay for a film it at a convenience store he worked at.
WP1A TIL that in the Looney Tunes universe, the mouse Speedy Gonzales has a cousin named Slowpoke Rodriguez whose possible marijuana habit is alluded to in an episode from 1962.