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TIL The practice of daily shampooing wasn’t a norm in the US until the 1970s and 1980s

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lo7V TIL the movie, “Napoleon Dynamite,” was cited by Netflix as being the hardest film to recommend based on you’re previous likes and dislikes.
1KAO TIL that an assassination attempt was made against retired US President Theodore Roosevelt- he was saved by a 50 page speech in his breast pocket. Roosevelt then proceeded to deliver said speech with a bullet lodged in his ribs.
gJPL TIL that a successful attempt at breaking the altitude record for a helicopter resulted in an engine failure which led to a world record for the longest autorotation of a helicopter.
bn1a TIL that Eminem used the word nigga only once and he decided to censor it.
e0vv6 TIL The first recorded autopsy was performed in 44 B.C. on Julius Caesar to determine which of the 23 stab wounds he received had killed him. (It was a chest wound that severed his aorta.)