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TIL that Paris, France, was the first western capital to have a black mayor (1879)

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GAom1 TIL: A study in 2009 randomly selecting people with beards, mustaches, and clean-shaven found that mustached individuals made 8.2% more money than the bearded and 4.3% more than cleanshaven. However, they spent 11% more money. The study was funded by the American Mustache Institute.
xVPWg TIL Male affection and physical contact wasn't a taboo until modern days. Men that were close friends used walk holding their hands without receiving weird looks from people.
8aQWV TIL the community of Innisfill in Ontario, Canada is subsidizing Uber instead of developing a transit system. To date, the plan is saving the community money and they are looking to expand the pilot.
OGn14 TIL Ozzy Osbourne gave up taking acid during the recording of Black Sabbath's Volume 4. He said “I took 10 tabs of acid then went for a walk in a field. I ended up standing there talking to this horse for about an hour. In the end the horse turned round and told me to fuck off. That was it for me.”
PYXZJ TIL when Blazing Saddles was shown on TV, they took out the flatulent symphony in the famous beans scene, leaving a bunch of cowboys standing up and sitting down, like a weird, silent, Western ballet.