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TIL that the only member of ZZ Top without a beard is drummer, Frank Beard.

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awpPy TIL that murderer Jessie Dimmick, while running from the police, broke into a couple's house and held them at knifepoint. After he fell asleep, they left and told the police of his location. Dimmick then sued them for $235,000 for breach of contract, saying they had promised not to call the police.
5VoXB TIL Nutrition Labeling of food was not required until 1994 in the US, and was considered controversial at the time.
bVrj TIL 450 years ago King Charles V of Spain commissioned a mechanical monk, an automaton, to be made as thanks to God for saving his son. This is one of the first robots made by humans. It still works to this day
1a7rO TIL that the story of the Dutch "Tulip Mania" is wildly exaggerated, and was propaganda created by religious Calvinists to promote the notion that "wealth is ungodly"
WNY TIL Brittany Murphy and her husband died in the same house of the same thing five months apart and her mother is suing the builder of the house.