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TIL that not only can Emily Dickinson poems be sung to "The Yellow Rose of Texas", it works for Gilligan's Island also.

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Qbgp TIL American women started shaving their armpits in 1915 because of advertisements in Harper’s Bazaar fashion magazine encouraging them to.
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