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TIL “…Charlie Brown is not bald. Though Charlie Brown is drawn with only a small curl of hair at the front of his head, and a little in the back, Charles M. Schulz has explained that he saw Charlie Brown as having hair that was light and cut short, so that it could not be seen very easily.”

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xVRjk TIL that on February 7 1981, a Tupolev Tu-104 passenger jet crashed during take off from Pushkin Airport near Leningrad, Russia, resulting in the death of all 50 people on board, including 16 Soviet admirals and generals, among them the commander of the Pacific Fleet.
1an97 TIL Draconian laws are named after the 1st Greek legislator, Draco, who meted out severe punishment for very minor offenses. These included enforced slavery for any debtor whose status was lower than that of his creditor and the death sentence for stealing a cabbage.
VMm4B TIL: The Market Theater Gum Wall in Seattle, WA is covered in several inches thick of gum, the wall is 15 feet high by 50-foot-long.
EOxW TIL Semantic Satiation is the psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then processes the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
5Yl0r TIL in 2016, a Spanish train conductor requested the company he worked for to send someone to relieve him at the end of his shift. When the company failed to do so, the conductor had the train stop in a village and simply went home, leaving 109 passengers stranded.