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TIL that 14th US President Franklin Pierce recited his 3,319-word inaugural address from memory, without the aid of notes.

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4b8X TIL that due to the lax laws that pertained to divorce in Reno, Nevada in the early 1900’s, “divorce ranches” were created where women, who were denied divorces in their own home states, could stay at, establish residency, and gain a divorce in Reno within the span of six weeks.
XEdW6 TIL that David Byrne of Talking Heads has an Academy Award for composing the score for The Last Emperor
yQMNe TIL of Setara Hussainzada, the first woman to ever sing in a TV program in Afghanistan. She received numerous death threads and has been force to live in exile.
gMr9 TIL that the theory that testifying originates from putting one’s hand on their/another’s genitals is false, and is simply a confusion of the Latin words testis and testiculus.
rNKdx TIL the East German border guard who escaped to West Germany during the contruction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 later hanged himself in his orchard