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TIL that news anchors in Turkmenistan, both men and women, were prevented from wearing any make-up after the former president discovered he was unable to tell the difference between them when presenters wore it.

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QJDm9 TIL of Christopher Langan, the "smartest man in the world" who broke the ceiling of the IQ scale when tested. He worked as a bouncer in Long Island for 20 years while developing his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe about the relationship of reality and the mind
X0A1r TIL that John Romita Sr. based his design for Mary Jane off of Ann-Margret's look in "Bye Bye, Birdie"
YpD4G TIL the album “Blurryface” by Twenty One Pilots was the first to have every song certified as at least gold
MeZb7 TIL that despite looking spindly, the earliest Automobiles- like the Model T ford- were very rugged. This was because they were built in a time when paved roads were uncommon and thus the first automobiles were expected to traverse rough country roads and outright offroad conditions.
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