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TIL About Gorgeous Gussie, A Tennis Player from the 40's and 50's made famous by her frilly knickers!

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wL9aW TIL that 2nd-century Roman artifacts were found at an archaeological site in Óc Eo in the Mekong delta area of southern Vietnam. It's likely that this is the Asian city known to the Romans as Cattigara.
j6d1v TIL Fractional freezing is a method to concentrate alcoholic beverages by freezing and removing the water. The problem is that the method concentrates impurities like excess ethanol which causes intense hangovers and a condition known as "apple palsy".
W7L6N TIL Hans Christian Anderson was huge fanboy of Charles Dickens & annoyed the hell out of him by overstaying his welcome as a guest
XEwbE TIL a woman survived a gunshot to the head when her hair weave stopped the bullet.
XEVbk TIL speed limits are sometimes for air quality reasons