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TIL some Victorians got their nipples pierced.

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da07 TIL actress and legendary beauty Lana Turner was discovered at 17 by a talent agent at a drugstore where she was having a coke and skipping class. She was immediately signed to make her first movie.
yJvX TIL Jimi Hendrix was once invited to play with Cream alongside Eric Clapton. In the middle of the show, Clapton walked off stage. He was found in the back shaking angrily and smoking a cigarette. When asked what was wrong, he simply replied, “You never told me he was that fucking good.”
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b9kwa TIL Isaac Newton once inserted a large sewing needle "betwixt my eye and bone as neare to [the] backside of my eye as I could", to observe its effect on vision