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TIL that until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed in the US in 1974 - Banks required single, widowed or divorced women to bring a man along to cosign any credit application, regardless of their income

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8eGvG TIL Junk e-mail is called spam because early internet users referenced a Monty Python skit. Hormel unsuccessfully sued to prevent companies calling junk mail spam. In 2006 they sponsored Spamalot, embracing the humor of Spam
yQd4X TIL about Stubbs, a cat who was the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska from July 1997 until his death. As a mayor, Stubbs used to eat at a restaurant and drank water laden with catnip out of a wineglass or margarita glass.
rNXXW TIL that hippos can sleep submerged in the water and come to the surface to breathe without waking up.
97mp TIL a former slave ship captain wrote the song “Amazing Grace.”
lVNN TIL Psychiatrists have redefined “Pathological Grooming” such as skin-picking, hair-pulling, and nail-biting as similar to OCD, and they are considered often to be virtually uncontrollable.