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TIL : Fitness Guru Richard Simmons has not been seen in public since January of last year

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LQ7Z0 TIL that one of the earliest elevators was built by King Louis XV to sneak in his mistress past the courtiers at Versailles Palace. It could only carry one person at a time and was a practically a caged chair being lifted by a pulley.
neJWb TIL jumps are classified by what kind of foot transfer happens. You hop on one foot, you leap from one foot to the other. Jumping is two feet to two feet. Assemble is jumping from two feet but landing on one, and Sissonne is jumping from one foot and landing on two.
0wwAL TIL that after her owner suffered a heart attack, a pig named LuLu saved her owner's life by squeezing through a doggy door, pushing open a gate and lay down in the middle of a nearby road until a motorist stopped and followed the pig back to the house.
Z8VBD TIL Thomas Jefferson thought that a country's constitution should be rewritten every 19 years, holding the belief that the dead should not rule the living.
lo1Ja TIL In Florida, fireworks are legal to buy as long as you sign a form saying you are scaring birds or illuminating a railroad