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TIL that despite speculation and assumptions that he is a homosexual, Richard Simmons has never actually publicly discussed his sexuality

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won08 TIL New Jersey is the only state in America where it’s illegal for drivers to pump their own gas. A Monmouth University poll in 2022 also showed that 60% of New Jersey residents oppose a policy that would allow stations to go fully self-service.
6EVwJ TIL that singer-songwriter Tori Amos, received a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five. She is the youngest person ever to have been admitted. At the age of eleven, she was expelled for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination".
p8v5Z TIL the first 'spam' email was sent 40 years ago this month, when Gary Thuerk sent a message advertising a new model of computer to all 393 ARPANET addresses on the West Coast of the US.
xyR0 TIL that Grace Kelly and her family had to provide Prince Rainier of Monaco with a dowry of $2 million in order for the marriage to go ahead.
R7Xoa TIL clothes hangers weren’t invented until the early 1900s. Before that people had fewer clothes and used shelves and hooks.