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TIL There’s a restaurant in Milwaukee named “Don’s TV Repair.”

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4Jkg TIL the inventor of the windshield wiper Mary Anderson was granted a patent for it in 1903, she tried to sell the rights in 1905 and was told that it held no commercial value and was unable to sell it. 19 years later, they became standard equipment on every vehicle.
Aaka TIL that a Siamese twin got away with a crime because they could not jail his innocent conjoined twin.
4Xw96 TIL bootlegger Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton killed himself rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of moonshining offences. He prepared his grave footstone years in advance and had it by his front porch and kept his casket in his living room. The epitaph read, "Popcorn Said Fuck You."
4kdog TIL while not enforced, Alabama still had a law disallowing interracial marriages until the year 2000, but don't worry, marrying your first cousin was always perfectly legal
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