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TIL France was still executing criminals by guillotine after ABBA won Eurovision

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PGKJ TIL that if asking someone a favour in their right ear, you are almost twice as likely to have them agree than if you were to ask them in the left ear.
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dDE1d TIL on Feb 5, 1919, Hollywood heavyweights Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith joined forces to create their own film studio, the United Artists Corporation.