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TIL it was unusual to wear a 'white' wedding dress before Queen Victoria made it fashionable

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6ErXJ TIL 1749 out of 1750 species of cacti are native to only The Americas
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R7MG1 TIL the Occam's razor isn't the only philosophical razor, and there even is one called Newton's flaming laser sword which states "what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating"
jEVN TIL A concerned Californian citizen, Gary Wesley, has been writing dissents to CA state propositions since 1978 simply because, “Somebody’s got to do it.”
o4BE TIL Daniel Day-Lewis hasn’t appear on stage since 1989 after he played Hamlet and claimed to see the ghost of his own father during the performance.