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TIL that unnatural hair colors, including blue and purple, were briefly popular around 1913-14, but fell out of fashion when WWI broke out

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R5Nwa TIL on October 11, 1992, Deion Sanders played in a Falcons game in Miami (NFL) and then flew to Pittsburgh to play in the Braves’ League Championship Series game against the Pirates that evening (MLB), becoming the first athlete to play in two professional leagues in the same day.
8epp8 TIL that the 2003 Somaliland presidential election, which was hailed as one of the freest and most transparent democratic exercises ever staged in the Horn of Africa, saw the candidate from a minority clan win by a margin of only 0.00016%, or 80 votes, over two other contenders
rRKge TIL before the landing of Apollo 14, its landing radar failed to function. Astronauts fixed the problem by turning it off and on again.
BrmbK TIL the population of Baltimore is less now than it was a hundred years ago
1oEO TIL gloves which can translate sign language into speech are being developed