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TIL about "That Time Barbie Actively Encouraged Starvation Dieting"

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8apjL TIL of Thomas Fitzpatrick, who drunkenly stole a plane from New Jersey and landed on the street outside the bar in NYC where a patron didn't believe that he could get from New Jersey to the city in 15 minutes. Two years later he did it again after another bar patron didn't believe his first story.
W8LB TIL Rutka Laskier, a Jewish girl from Poland who died in Auschwitz at the age of 14, wrote a diary describing her experiences under Nazi occupation. Her diary was published in 2006 and she has become known as the “Polish Anne Frank.”
p8XON TIL that the National Art Museum Of Ukraine recreated a "Sleeping Beauty" live exhibit inviting men to awaken beauties with a kiss. Five women were selected to perform "sleeping", having agreed to a very binding clause to marry the men if they opened their eyes while being kissed.
kOjA4 TIL that Axolotls can regenerate the same organs and limbs up to 5 times, including its heart, arms, spine and parts of it's brain!
XVl6 TIL there is a Jules Verne novel called “Paris in the Twentieth Century”, which was written in 1863, set in 1960 and first published in 1994.