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TIL Bill Nye, the Science Guy, holds a patent for improved point shoes to better support dancers’ feet

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R59Yj TIL: Once when a journalist asked her if she was pregnant, then Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto responded "No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the prime minister, its my right to be fat if I want to."
oQe8 TIL in Nevada, voters can choose “None of the Above” for President. More people picked that in 2016 than ever before.
Do8j TIL to annoy his captors, an American POW in North Korea would pretend every day that he was riding around on an invisible motorcycle until eventually, his captors “confiscated” the motorcycle and stated that it was “against the rules and regulations.”
gr604 TIL German Chocolate Cake is not German in origin, but is named for an English-American chocolate maker Samuel German
69MDY TIL that Aretha Franklin's handwritten will was found in a spiral notebook wedged between couch cushions months after she died, but a court ruled it was valid