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TIL - jurors reward the good-looking, penalize the unbeautiful

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X4l8 TIL there is a strip club in Portland that serves only vegan food and only allows its strippers to strip in non-animal-based clothing
Z870D TIL before the age of alarm clocks, there was a job known as the “knocker up” where a man would tap on someones window with a long pole until they were awake. Often factories would hire men to ensure they made it to the knocker up position on time.
9YX6r TIL that Eric Clapton’s Tears In Heaven was written about his 4 year old son, Connor Clapton, who died by falling out of an apartment building.
4XmyN TIL Santa Fe, New Mexico is the oldest state capital in the US & its full name remains La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís which means "The Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi" in English.
neDn9 TIL Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He earned enough money to buy his freedom at age 27. The following year he married his wife Tina and purchased her freedom as well.