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TIL Debbie Harry of Blondie was a playboy bunny

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epB46 TIL about Senator William Alden “Watertight Smith”, who chaired the US investigations into The sinking of the Titanic and infamously asked why passengers could not shelter in watertight compartments.
9OJG TIL Ted Nugent “supposedly Americas biggest patriot,” shit his pants every day to dodge the draft to the Vietnam War.
b97kN TIL that a single exposure to rudeness in the morning can contaminate people's perception of subsequent social interactions throughout the day, causing them to perceive more instances of rudeness.
KY6b4 TIL that the Ark of the Covenant, if constructed as described in the Bible, would actually function as an electrical capacitor storing and discharging static electricity
Z8ZOD TIL of Black Bart, an outlaw who successfully robbed 28 stagecoaches and left this poem in one of them: I've labored long and hard for bread / For honor, and for riches / But on my corns too long you've tread / You fine-haired sons of bitches.