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TIL Elvis was a natural blonde. He started to dye his hair at a young age to have an edgier look.

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Je5Q TIL a New Zealand man memorized the French dictionary to compete in a French Scrabble tournament. He won the tournament despite not speaking any french.
kO7V4 TIL in 2006 a teenage girl secretly pointed a webcam at her bed and left it running all night, hoping to prove to her mother that her father was molesting her. In spite of the video evidence, the jury voted to acquit because they thought the girl "didn't seem upset enough" during her testimony.
lLJ7 TIL Brendan Hufford, founder of kids martial arts company OK Kimonos, once held a clothing drive for poor children in Brazil that raised $3,000 and 100 uniforms. He didn’t donate any of the uniforms or money to the charity, but promoted his business as doing such.
6onW TIL when John Williams first played the theme song to the film “Jaws” by playing just two notes on piano, Steven Spielberg laughed and thought it was a joke.
yBje TIL of the H.L. Hunley, a fully functional naval submarine used by the Confederacy in the Civil War. Powered by hand cranks and armed with bouyant torpedos, it was the first submersible vessel in history to successfully sink an enemy ship