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TIL that the hair straightener brand “ghd” stands for good hair day. ????

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788BO TIL in 1918 photographer Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged 21,000 soldiers at Camp Sherman in Ohio into a "living portrait" of President Woodrow Wilson. Mole & Thomas created many other living portraits of other famous figures in the years which followed at different military bases around the US.
R7417 TIL A man whose car bore a license plate reading 'NO PLATE' received notices for thousands of unpaid parking tickets.
r9dM TIL that a British teenager faced probation after he took part in a demonstration against the Church of Scientology and claiming that it was a ‘cult’, with police confiscating his 'cult’ placard.
7087 TIL Larry King has been married eight times to seven women, including to a playboy bunny, a math teacher, and a devout Mormon. He had been married twice before his current wife was even born, and he and his current wife married in a hospital room days before he went into heart surgery.
GAmLJ TIL the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 drew crowds of up to 16,000 people—even though they lasted three hours, with a 1-hour opening speech, a 90-minute rebuttal, and a 30-minute closing.The debates were so popular that newspapers printed full transcripts.