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TIL in ancient Greece throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal

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N7P0N TIL in the late 80s when Tipper Gore led Senate hearings to censor music lyrics against metal and rap bands, the PMRC star speaker was her favorite singer, John Denver. However, Denver stated he was against censorship, ruining their chances to win the legal battle.
DQ4Oj TIL The humorist Alphonse Allais was one of the first to make monochromatic paintings. His works include 'First Communion of Anemic Young Girls In The Snow' (1883) and 'Apoplectic Cardinals Harvesting Tomatoes on the Shore of the Red Sea' (1884).
5VXVD TIL - Methuselah is a 4,854-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. It is recognized as the non-clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world.
j68lj TIL that if you're over the age of 62 and in the US, you can get a free lifetime pass to all federal recreation areas managed by the National Park Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, US Forest Service, or the US Army Corps of Engineers for $80.
a8AY0 TIL: A Single Watermelon Once Sold For $6100