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TIL of Fuller Cut, a barbershop that gives a $2 discount if a child reads aloud while getting a cut. The $2 discount is given to the child after the cut.

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P1WlO TIL that between 2008 and 2010, the Iraqi government were scammed into spending over $40 million on fake bomb detectors - the ADE 651
njV7 TIL that President McKinley was supposed to meet the inventor of the bullet proof vest to try the new invention but never made it because he was shot to death by a bullet that would have easily been stopped by the vest
rve0 TIL Upon George Washington’s death, Napoleon Bonaparte ordered 10 days of mourning throughout the country
R7YDQ TIL - Launched un 1955, the Marlboro Man campaign was most astonishing campaigns in the history of demand engineering. Marlboro went from 1 percent of sale to the fourth best selling brand.
Yjgv TIL scientists studied a parrot for 30 years and found he had the intelligence of a five-year-old human. He had a vocabulary of 150 words and could ask for a banana. If he was offered a nut instead, he would stare in silence, ask for the banana again, or take the nut and throw it at the researcher.