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TIL that by law, each citizen of Kentucky is required to bathe once each year.

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EgdbV TIL Catherine Dior, youngest sister of Christian Dior, was in the French resistance in WW2. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was tortured and sent to both Ravensbruck and Buchenwald concentration camps, surviving both. Diors first perfume, Miss Dior, was named after her.
M7b1W TIL that John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Reagan in 1981, bought his .22 Rohm RG-14 revolver from a pawn shop on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas, the exact same street President John F. Kennedy was assassinated at in 1963.
wnl8 TIL that J.K. Rowling was asked to use her initials instead of her full name (Joanne Rowling) because her publishers were worried that boys wouldn’t want to read a book written by a woman
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x6oo1 TIL that when Ireland became independent, the government sought to use the traditional image of the Trinity College harp as its national emblem. However, Guinness trademarked the harp decades before, so the government had to adopt a mirrored image.