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TIL: The Wizard of Oz received one negative review, from the New Yorker, whose film critic despised the film's "Vulgarity [of] raw, eye-straining Technicolor" and "Singer Midgets"

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9YOEr TIL of Mother Featherlegs, a prostitute from Wyoming named so for her frilly lace underwear. She was murdered by her partner "Dangerous Dick" Davis in 1879. There is a monument to her near Lusk, WY - called the the only monument in the United States to a prostitute.
M7QV0 TIL Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks played herself in an episode of Touched By An Angel in 1999
eDoJ TIL it would take Vietnam an estimated 300 years and 10 Billion Dollars to clear its territory of unexploded bombs, shells and mines.
R5elQ TIL about Boustrophedon - a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style.
GAAJ4 TIL no Roman Emperor ever ate any pasta. It was first recorded in Italy in the 13th-14th century