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TIL that Kailia Posey aka the “grinning girl” meme from Toddlers & Tiaras died when she was just 16 by suicide

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4jjX TIL that for the Merovingian dynasty (457-751 AD), the power of a king was based on the length of his hair. If a rival shaved the head of a king, then his power would be lost. The man with the longest hair in the kingdom would subsequently inherit the throne.
yVYyl TIL that britney spears's song 3 is 3 minutes and 33 seconds long
ZRv4 TIL In the same way that humans tend to be right-handed or left-handed, elephants can be right-tusked or left-tusked. Their dominant tusk is easy to identify, because it will be more worn down than the less dominant tusk, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
bGpp TIL Albert Einstein once received a letter from a girl lamenting that she couldn’t be scientist because of her gender. He responded, “I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it.”
wor8J TIL Adolf Hitler was a cartoonist for the army newspaper during World War I