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TIL that from 1991 until 2019, women were not allowed to wear trousers in Sudan.

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Oojw4 TIL Early in life, Abraham Lincoln wrestled. When local gang leader Jack Armstrong heard of him, he challenged The Honest One to a match. It ended with Abe grabbing him by the throat, hoisting him up, giving a little shake, then throwing him to the dirt. It was the first chokeslam used in wrestling.
QNEl6 TIL In 1985, Courtney Cox was the first person to say the word “period” in reference to mensuration on TV. It was for a Tampax commercial.
GY15Q TIL there’s a Superman cartoon made in the 40s that pioneered high quality animation and cost half a million per episode to draw
aAN0 TIL President George H.W. Bush was 17 when told of Pearl Harbor. He defied his Dad to join the Navy, becoming its youngest flier and a Pacific hero. Now, he doesn’t like to discuss it.
9GZD TIL that John Paul Jones, “Father of the American Navy,” shipped aboard a slaver early in his life, killed a crewman over a wage dispute, and that Jones was a fake last name to throw off the law afterwards!