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TIL you can get wrinkles just from sleeping the same way every night.

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D1Dwp TIL That the drummer from ABBA took part in several F1 grand prix races in the 1980s and scored the first points for the ATS team.
AN1Qa TIL The Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and the United States are the only seven countries in the United Nations that do not require employers to provide paid time off for new parents.
yMwe TIL that after Congressman John Rankin refused to sit next to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. because of the colour of his skin, Powell found every opportunity possible to sit close to the Mississippi Congressman. On one occasion Powell followed him from seat to seat until Rankin had moved five times.
jZPp TIL - Salvador Dalí would avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on his check. His (often correct) assumption was that nobody would want to cash such valuable artwork.
4xnN TIL that the first officer in the movie Titanic who accepted a bribe, shot a passenger, and then committed suicide is actually a hero and memorialized in his hometown in Dalbeattie, Scottland. The town was so distraught, a Fox exec flew over to present a donation to the local high school.