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TIL that there is a list of people detained in Guantanamo Bay for having a Casio F91W watch.

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Ev90 TIL that the term Peeping Tom comes from when Lady Godiva, an Earl’s wife, tried to convince him to lower the heavy taxes on the poor. He told her that he would if she rode through town naked. When she did it, the townsfolk all averted their eyes out of courtesy; except for one tailor named Tom.
xKy1 TIL the first Japanese person in space was a heavy smoking, whiskey-drinking, middle-aged news anchorman.
x6bXB TIL that the pimp from the movie Taxi Driver was originally written to be black as it matched what the writer of the movie was seeing in everyday life but he was changed to white as it was thought to have been unpalatable to audiences
OoxnY TIL Most planes are not able to fly while empty due to balance issues, sand bags and spare tires are used to fix these balance issues
G7WG TIL that those rounded bumps on the painted lane dividers are called Botts’ dots.