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TIL 40% of successful people consider themselves frauds

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yVOna TIL after another band backed out, Malcolm McLaren suggested Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees play the 100 Club Punk Special. At the time, the band consisted only of Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin, so they had to borrow two musicians, one of which was Sid Vicious (who played drums).
KYV7a TIL that Ohio's state motto is "With God, all things are possible". In 1958, Jimmy Mastronardo (10 years old) noticed that Ohio was the only one of the 48 US states without a motto. He got 18,000 signatures on a petition and persuaded the state legislature to pass a bill and the governor to sign it.
grY8L TIL that the Crimean War helped to popularise facial hair in Victorian times. This was due to the large number of soldiers who returned home with the beards and mustaches they had grown to keep the cold out.
nWB4b TIL from 1970 to 2015, The Sun published a picture of a topless female model on its page 3
J1RZ8 TIL the longest theoretical sight line at ground level on earth is Hindu-tagh in China to Mt. Dankova in Kyrgyzstan at 538 Km, while the longest photographed sight line is from the Spanish Pyrenees to French Alps at 443 Km.