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TIL Emperor Meiji of Japan (1852-1912) was the last Japanese emperor to wear a full beard

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VMa1p TIL When author Flannery O'Connor had a high school assignment to sew a dress, she made one for her pet duck, which she then brought to school to model it.
0d14N TIL when President McKinley was asked by his personal secretary to cancel his planned visit to the Temple of Music for safety reasons, McKinley asked his secretary why anyone would want to hurt him. McKinley would later get shot at the Temple of Music.
Rmxl TIL that England, France, and Scotland all used to assess a ‘window tax’. Tax assessors would count the number of windows on a home or apartment and charge for every window on the assumption that the more windows you had, the bigger your home, and the more money you could afford to pay.
1E5W TIL in the 2009 Philippines floods a teenager named Muelmar Magallanes saved 30 lives. After leaping into the rushing waters to save his family from danger, he repeatedly jumped back in to save others, including a trapped mother and baby, until too tired to fight the current he was swept away.
awRMb TIL a man sued PepsiCo, alleging he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can. PepsiCo's defense won by proving that a mouse would dissolve inside the soda in the days after being put in the can.