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TIL the Comic book code of 1954 specified that “Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.”

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YDeZ TIL There is a clock in New Zealand that has been running since 1864 despite never having been manually wound.
1aVgD TIL in 2009 a man won a $10,000 settlement after getting kicked out of Yankee Stadium by off-duty police officers for trying to use the bathroom while "God Bless America" was playing.
A9Ax TIL Sex and alcohol make you happier than kids and religion
D40e TIL that the day Keith Richards was shooting Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End he was so drunk that the film’s director had to prop him up in order to shoot his scene.
4k8GR TIL: the planets don’t orbit the sun, instead they orbit the center of the solar system’s mass called the barycenter