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TIL Women’s flapper fashion of the 1920’s valued small breasts and a thin boyish figure. Bras to flatten the chest were wildly popular

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7rvGX TIL George Lucas helped his friend Francis Ford Coppola shoot and edit The Godfather.
gMbx4 TIL that in 1790, Thomas Jefferson proposed a decimal-based system for weight, length, and volume that predates the metric system. If it had been adopted, 1 mile would equal 10,000 ft, an inch would be divisible by 10, and 1 cubic foot would equal exactly 1,000 ounces.
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dDpw8 TIL the previous Pope Leo (the 13th), is the earliest-born person to be filmed, as far as we know. Born in 1810, his image was captured in 1898 by film inventor William Dickson. He blessed the camera while being filmed.
a8GNA TIL that in his classic Western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974), Mel Brooks named his character Gov. LePetomane after that of a 19th century French stage act of he same name. Flatulist Joseph Pujols combined the French verb péter ("to fart") with "mane" (maniac), loosely translating to "thefartmaniac".