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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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jNJ4N TIL The Blues Brothers Band [Aykroyd, Belushi, et al] had a number #1 album which went double platinum and they opened for the Grateful Dead BEFORE the film was made. That album has now sold more than 3.5 million copies and is among the highest-selling blues albums of all time.
E1RMd TIL that a California man found an unopened copy of a 1987 Nintendo game called Kid Icarus in his mom's attic. It was still in the original shopping bag along with a receipt showing it cost $38.45. He later sold the game at auction for $9,000.
mxpXM TIL that during the Great Leap Forward, when Chinese sparrows were deemed a pest and tried to be exterminated, some of the sparrows found refuge at the Polish Embassy in Beijing. The Embassy refused to scare away the birds and was surrounded by people playing on drums causing the sparrows to die.
nW6jY Today I learned that Action Park had a water slide with an actual loop-the-loop that actually worked (although it was rarely operated for obvious reasons.)
M7X1B TIL beetroot juice was actually used as red hair dye in the 16th century, particularly by Victorians.