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TIL kid gloves are gloves made out of soft leather made from kids (young goats)

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ZpRDo TIL The 2001 film The Cat’s Meow, starring Kirsten Dunst, dramatizes the scandalous 1924 death of film mogul Thomas Ince on William Randolph Hearst’s yacht. With Charlie Chaplin allegedly flirting with Hearst’s mistress Marion Davies, many believe Hearst meant to shoot Chaplin—but hit Ince instead.
KW79 TIL that New York City spent nearly $1 million on typewriters in 2009, mostly for the NYPD, which still used them to fill out property and evidence vouchers, which were printed on carbon-paper forms
N70Lb TIL: William Brewster, leader of the Plymouth Colony in America, named his children Jonathan, Patience, Fear, Love, and Wrestling.
OGlK6 Today I learned Jimmy Carter was lowered into a Nuclear Reactor to help repair it.
o9Q8 TIL American women are more likely than men to prefer a male boss (40% vs 29%). 51% men are indifferent to the gender of their boss vs 32% for women.