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TIL The World's Oldest Surviving Footwear Comes From Oregon

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QNjDk TIL that Elvis had two legal spellings of his middle name. His birth certificate says "Elvis Aron Presley". When the singer decided to change to "Aaron", he found that other state documents already say "Aaron", the way the doctor who delivered him recorded it at birth. The gravestone says "Aaron".
GYALN TIL researchers found that the higher rating of voice attractiveness for women correlates with having a smaller waist-to-hip ratio, a body type that is commonly found to be more attractive in women.
Memj7 TIL when a ptition for the decrimnalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen was addressed to the French parliment in 1977, it was signed by such intellectuals as Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes and Simone de Beauvoir.
8aoEL TIL: Northwest Angle, MN was created when map maker, John Mitchell miscalculated the source of the Mississippi being the Lake of The Woods.
b64O7 TIL Steller’s sea cows were massive, docile animals that were exterminated less than 30 years after the species was first discovered.