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TIL about Louis Abolafia, man who ran against Richard Nixon in 1968 elections as the naked hippie "love candidate" under the Cosmic Love party with the slogan "What have I got to hide?" for his performance art. He also was president candidate under the Nudist Party, and was friends with Bob Dylan.

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rLkW TIL that much graffiti from the walls of the ancient city of Pompeii have been unearthed and translated, showing that human behavior has remained unchanged in the past 2000 or so years.
aZYM TIL Alice In Chains’ lead vocalist Layne Staley in response to an article in 1998 asking, “Who will wipe and change the band now?” after their manager retired, Layne mailed a jar of piss and a bag of his own feces to the magazine with a note attached that read, “Wipe and change this, motherf***ers!”
7QGb TIl In the Elizabethan era, sugar was very expensive and enjoyed by the wealthy, thus the wealthy were know to have bad teeth. Poorer people who couldn’t afford sugar would black out their own teeth to give the impression of wealth.
RLX4 TIL a sports science researcher from France, Jean-Denis Rouillon of the University of Besançon, found after fifteen years of empirical research that women who go braless have, on average, perkier breasts, with nipples on average 7mm higher in relation to their shoulders than regular bra users.
wO5Y TIL Michael Cera’s first role with lines was in a Pilsbury Doughboy Commercial