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TIL It’s the Hula Hoops 50th Birthday

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8a6pb TIL The husband of British writer Angelica Garnett (a niece of Virginia Woolf) had once been a lover of her biological father. She later dated a painter who had also been one of her father's lovers.
n5XW TIL Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish war hero who helped win the American Revolutionary War, left his property in the USA to be sold to educate and free Thomas Jefferson’s and other slaves. As executor, Jefferson never acted on the will and no slaves were freed.
e0eaD TIL that the United States government operates a single marijuana farm run by the University of Mississippi
jNP8E TIL That Paul Rueben's (Pee Wee Herman) father was one of the five founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force.
QJBlE TIL Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' reentered Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart in 2018 on the strength of a tweet featuring the song playing over a video of the Alcorn State University dance line