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TIL electric hair clippers were invented in 1921 and before that they had manual trimmers that worked similarly, dating back to 1855

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OopVe TIL that the notion of a "white Christmas" was popularized by the writings of Charles Dickens, whose stories that depicted a snowy Christmas season were based on his childhood, which happened to be the coldest decade in England in over a century
oB6jL TIL: Plants have to have ‘plant passports’ stamped on the side of their pots to travel overseas
QQ1M TIL a man single-handedly planted a 1,360-acre forest at 16 and now lives there at the age of 47
lo1oG TIL the overwhelming majority of doctors -- a total of 93 percent -- are concerned about the common meat industry practice of using antibiotics on healthy animals.
eQyJ TIL in 1994 Guns n Roses Bassist Duff McKagan bought $100,000 in stock in Microsoft, Amazon and Starbucks