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TIL that metal eyelets allowed for corsets to be tightened further than before in Victorian England. So much so it would displace organs.

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GwgJ TIL that Ryan Adams, was once requested to play “Summer of 69” at a concert. Ryan then ordered the lights turned on, found the fan who made the joke request, paid him $30 cash as a refund for the show, ordered him to leave, and said he wouldn’t play another note until he’d gone.
l7Xk5 TIL Tulips were once more valuable than gold.
nYBr TIL: California is the only state that mandates comprehensive sex education
GAkyg TIL that in 1928, one couple named their child Herbert Hoover Jones in honor of the president. After the Great Depression four years later, they petitioned a court to relieve their son of the mortification "which he is suffering and will suffer" and change his name to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones
PY5rw TIL that the average household will use 40% more toilet paper than usual if all of its members are staying home around the clock.